# winthrop.town

> Winthrop, MA's (very) unofficial digital almanac: a live map of aircraft, vessels, buses, weather and tides, with local news, a community calendar and a searchable archive of public records. Independent, not the Town's. Contact: admin@winthrop.town.

Everything here is readable without JavaScript: record lists, search results and documents render on the server. The map is a 3D town drawn in the browser; the data behind it is served as JSON under /api, which is not for crawling.

## Public records (https://winthrop.town/records)

- [Records hub](https://winthrop.town/records): one search across every collection below, plus a directory of outside sources.
- [Police logs](https://winthrop.town/records/police-logs): the Winthrop Police dispatch logs, searchable by officer, street or incident; the people involved are not indexed.
- Each week's log has its own page at https://winthrop.town/records/police-logs/week/<YYYY-MM-DD>, and [the officers](https://winthrop.town/records/police-logs/officers) the logs name are listed.
- [Police discipline](https://winthrop.town/records/police-discipline): every internal affairs case the department has disclosed and the state POST Commission's records on Winthrop officers, with charts.
- [Public records requests](https://winthrop.town/records/foia): requests to the Town, each with its exchange and the documents released, mirrored from MuckRock and the Town's portal. Requesters' names are not kept.
- [Courts and rulings](https://winthrop.town/records/rulings): court decisions, federal dockets, Civil Service, Open Meeting Law and labor relations cases with the Town as a party.
- [The Town's business](https://winthrop.town/records/town): budgets, union contracts, campaign finance filings, permits and state reports.
- [Board meetings](https://winthrop.town/records/meetings): each board's agendas, packets and minutes, narrowed by board.
- [Historical records](https://winthrop.town/records/history): the Town Clerk's registers of births and deaths, 1853 to 1967, and out-of-copyright books about the town.
- Every mirrored document is served at https://winthrop.town/api/records/file/<id>, the one path under /api meant for readers and crawlers, and read as text at https://winthrop.town/records/document/<id>.

## Around town

- [Map](https://winthrop.town/): the live map. Planes, boats and buses move; cameras, photos, events, beaches and restaurants are pinned; police activity is a heat map.
- [Calendar](https://winthrop.town/calendar): town meetings imported from the Town's site, and residents' events.
- [News](https://winthrop.town/news): the Town's announcements and the Winthrop Pilot's headlines.
- [About](https://winthrop.town/about): data sources, the stack, and how to reach the site.
- [Data](https://winthrop.town/data): every feed, file and JSON endpoint, in one list.

## Feeds and machine-readable files

- [Sitemap](https://winthrop.town/sitemap.xml): every page, records dated by the day the archive took them in.
- [Records feed](https://winthrop.town/records/feed.xml): new records, every collection but meetings.
- [Meetings feed](https://winthrop.town/records/meetings/feed.xml): new board meetings.
- [News feed](https://winthrop.town/news/feed.xml)
- [Calendar](https://winthrop.town/calendar.ics): the calendar as iCalendar.
- Pages carry schema.org data: the site and its search, breadcrumbs, each record as a document, each event as an event, the records collections as datasets.

## Sources

Police logs and meetings come from the Town's own site; discipline records from the Massachusetts POST Commission; requests from MuckRock, DocumentCloud and the Town's NextRequest portal; rulings from CourtListener and statereference.com; finances from the Town, PERAC and OCPF; historical volumes from the Internet Archive; weather, tides, the sea (buoy 44013), air quality and alerts from Open-Meteo, NOAA, EPA AirNow, the National Weather Service and the MBTA; aircraft and vessels from ADS-B and AIS feeds. Social security numbers are never shown, and residents' own contact details are cut from mirrored documents.