ASK WASHINGTON, DC'S OPEN DATA DIRECT QUESTIONS.
Connect Open Data DC to Menza and query Washington, DC's public datasets — 311 service requests, crime incidents, property and land records, transportation — in plain English. Menza reads them live through the official Open Data DC API, no downloads or GIS tooling, and the connector is read-only, so you're simply querying public data faster.
- Reads other data
- Generates answers and insights
- Connects via the official API
What can Menza do with Open Data DC?
Track 311 requests by neighbourhood
Ask how pothole or illegal-dumping requests trend by ward and Menza queries the live 311 dataset, so you see which service categories are climbing without opening a GIS console.
Research property and land in minutes
Pull ownership, land use and assessment details from the property and land datasets with one question — Menza handles the layer lookups that usually mean downloading shapefiles first.
Put crime data behind your decisions
Compare incident counts by offence type, boundary and time period straight from the city's crime data, so reports and community updates rest on current numbers rather than last year's PDF.
See these answers on your own Open Data DC data.
Menza working with Open Data DC.
Menza watches your Open Data DC data and surfaces what's worth knowing the moment it spots it — the margins, stockouts, and trends you'd otherwise dig for. Read-only: it answers and flags, never changes your data.
Menzajust now311 pothole requests in Ward 5 are up 62% month-on-month — the largest rise of any ward. The increase concentrates along two corridors; most other request categories in the ward are flat.
Menza6m agoReported bike thefts fell 18% quarter-on-quarter citywide, but two police service areas moved the other way. Both outliers border the same commercial district; the rest of the dataset shows a broad decline.
Connect Open Data DC in a couple of clicks.
Is my Open Data DC data secure?
Your credentials are encrypted at rest and never exposed to the AI. Menza reads your data through the provider's official API using the access you grant, and you stay in control of what it can do — read-only by default, with any actions gated behind your approval.
Read our privacy policy- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- Scoped access — you choose what Menza can see
- Read-only by default; any action needs your approval
- Credentials are encrypted and never shown to the AI
- Revoke access at any time
Open Data DC questions, answered.
How does Menza connect to Open Data DC?
You connect with an API key, stored encrypted at rest and never shown to the AI — Menza queries the city's ArcGIS REST services through a secured layer that adds it server-side. From there, DC's public datasets are one plain-English question away.
What can Menza answer about Open Data DC?
Anything in the district's published datasets — 311 service requests, crime incidents, property and land records, administrative boundaries and transportation data. Ask for trends by ward, counts by category, or a comparison across time periods, and Menza queries the live layers to answer.
Is my data safe with Menza?
Yes. Your key is encrypted at rest and never exposed to the AI, and the datasets themselves are public government data. The connector is read-only — Menza never changes anything in Open Data DC; it only queries the published layers to answer your questions.
How current is the Open Data DC data?
As current as the city publishes it — Menza queries the live services at the moment you ask, so you always get the latest published state of each dataset rather than a copy you downloaded weeks ago. Update frequency varies by dataset, and you can ask Menza to check.