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It looks like it might be: https://blog.aspyr.com/2016/10/04/sid-meiers-civilization-vi...

I'm hoping to write an expanded post about this, but for now: we're using the 2009-2013 American Community Survey (a product the Census Bureau puts out yearly, rather than the every-ten-years Census). You can download CSVs of the whole thing here: http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/201.... We took those and TIGER data (geospatial data specifying what areas each of the stats in the CSV correspond to), and put them into a Postgres db with PostGIS.

If you're not looking to show the whole US at a granular level like we are, you might be able to skip the FTP server approach a few ways. They recently released CitySDK (https://uscensusbureau.github.io/citysdk/), which seems like a nice way to get at Census data from the browser, though I haven't personally used it. There's also a set of APIs (https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html), which might work depending on what specifically you're trying to do. A third way to get at it is to use American FactFinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml), which lets you drill in and search for whatever fields and/or geographies you care about, and export them.

If you just want to browse around Census data, I also love Census Reporter (http://censusreporter.org).

Remix (YC W15) | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime

Remix is creating technology that empowers cities to be great for everyone. We’re starting with an underserved and core part of infrastructure: public transit. Our product is used by cities around the world to help them plan public transit more efficiently and effectively.

We're looking for a frontend engineer who join our three person engineering team, and help us quickly make improvements and build new features.

We've gotten incredible traction so far (signed contracts 50+ cities in under a year), and that's been in large part because of how well our product (http://getremix.com) works. You'll get a ton of responsibility, get to join a small but quickly growing startup, and to work on something that matters.

http://getremix.com/jobs#engineering

Remix (W15) - http://getremix.com - San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

Work with us to build great cities.

Design is at the heart of what we do. You’ll be in charge of the user experience at Remix, helping to create a compelling simple app used by cities across the world to plan great transit. Our company was founded by designers (Sam and Tiffany) and we take this stuff very seriously.

You’d be a good fit if:

• You have experience creating and maintaining products with real-world users.

• Your visual design is strong and opinionated.

• You’ve worked closely with engineers to get great design out the door.

You should be comfortable making detailed graphics and figuring out how an application should work and feel. Even better if you can turn your ideas into working prototypes using HTML and CSS.

To apply, email [email protected] with a portfolio and a few words on why you're right for the role.

To be fair... the price was artificially kept at $0.05 from when the subway system was opened in 1904 until some point in the 50's - which in the process helped drive the private operators of the system out of business.

New York, NY. Fulltime.

Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another. Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.

Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet. Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.

Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later. As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at [email protected], with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.

You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/)