Jerusalem Shelters

Data Source

Shelter data was obtained from the Jerusalem Municipality public shelter registry.

Download

The shelter data is available for download in two formats:

• Shelter data (CSV) – original tabular data
• Shelter data (GeoJSON) – geographic format used by this site

Data Dictionary

Fields available in the GeoJSON dataset used by this site:

GeoJSON Schema

The shelter data follows the GeoJSON specification:

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "id": 1,
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Point",
        "coordinates": [longitude, latitude]
      },
      "properties": {
        "name": "string",
        "neighborhood": "string",
        "address": "string",
        "shelterType": "Public Shelter | Protected Parking | Residential Protected Parking",
        "capacity": "integer | null",
        "accessible": "boolean",
        "mapAddress": "string"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Coordinates follow the GeoJSON convention: [longitude, latitude] (WGS84).

Transformations

The following transformations were applied to the original municipality data to produce the dataset used by this site:

• Geocoding: Street addresses were geocoded to latitude/longitude coordinates. The suffix "Jerusalem, Israel" was appended to each address for geocoding accuracy and is stripped for display.
• GeoJSON conversion: The tabular CSV data was converted into a GeoJSON FeatureCollection, with each shelter represented as a Point feature.
• Shelter naming: Where the original data contained only a shelter number (e.g. "681"), a human-readable name was generated (e.g. "Shelter 681"). Named locations (e.g. "Binyanei HaUma") were preserved as-is.
• Type normalisation: Shelter type labels were standardised to English categories: "Public Shelter", "Protected Parking", and "Residential Protected Parking".
• Field mapping: Original Hebrew column names were mapped to English property names (name, address, neighborhood, type, capacity, accessible).

For Data Partners

This is an open-source community project. If you represent the Jerusalem Municipality, a community organization, or have corrections to shelter data, we welcome your contributions.

How to contribute updates:

• Submit corrections or additions as CSV rows or GeoJSON features
• Email: public@danielrosehill.com
• Or open an issue on GitHub