This dataset is in a user-friendly human-readable format. It contains the current crossing inventory - one record for each crossing. To download historical data, go here: https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Crossing-Inventory-Data-Historical/vhwz-raag. To download the source dataset that contains raw data values, go here: https://data.transportation.gov/dataset/Crossing-Inventory-Source-Data-Form-71-Current/xp92-5xme.
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d@-<<EOF {"sql": " SELECT * FROM \"datahub-transportation-gov/crossing-inventory-data-form-71-current-m2f8-22s6\".\"crossing_inventory_data_form_71_current\" LIMIT 100 "} EOF
See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.
