Naming Edmonton
The provenance of Edmonton's place names.
Details regarding contemporary naming decisions are provided by https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/city_organization/naming-committee.
Historical naming information collected by Matthew Dance (http://www.namingedmonton.com/), primarily from Berger, Carol, editor. "Naming Edmonton: From Ada to Zoie". The University of Alberta Press, 2004 (ISBN 0-88864-423-X).
Querying over HTTP
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 \"edmonton-ca/naming-edmonton-8e7n-6xm5\".\"naming_edmonton\"
LIMIT 100
"}
EOFSee the Splitgraph documentation
for more information.
