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Citation: HowLoud, Brendan Farrell (). HowLoud SoundScore [gis dataset]. HowLoud. https://howloud.com/soundscore/. last updated: 2025-05-08 (update frequency: Never). Abstract: Soundscore™ is HowLoud, Inc.’s patent-pending technology to build our noise map and deliver data to users. A Soundscore™ rating is a number between 50 (very loud) and 100 (very quiet) that tells you how loud a location is due to environmental noise. Key words: SoundScore, Noise Pollution, Noise, USA Open Geospatial Consortium Standards: raster tiles | raster tile url: https://api.howloud.com/tiles/score/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?x-api-key= | WMS (coming soon) | WFS (coming soon) ETL documentation

ETL for us_soundscore_howloud

######### # GDSC ETL is performed in two steps: shell script to ETL data into postgres # and then additional transformations with SQL in postGIS (if needed). #### ######### # Step 1 - bash script (pseudo code) #### # create directory structure and move into it mkdir -p /data/us_soundscore_howloud/{download,etl} && cd /data/us_soundscore_howloud # set update flag based on last update and update frequency do_update=0 if date() < last_update + update_frequency else do_update = 1