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Cross posted from the Metro Mapper blog.
The city of Louisville Metro has partnered with our government open data services and mapping company GovMapper to bring a daily crime incident reports map from the LMPD to the citizens of Louisville.
There are maps for every police division and beat in the city, with data updating daily. The map customizations [...]
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GovMapper has been selected by KSTC for the respected Kentucky Enterprise Fund grant this year!
GovMapper helps local governments get their data online for the public. This grant will help us reach more city and state governments across the nation, and show them how to open data for their citizens, promoting transparency and [...]
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Our biggest challenge to getting great public data online is forging a human relationship with the decision makers in local governments. When we make a connection to the individuals in charge, we can show them the benefits of putting their data online and how easy the process is.
This connection to local government almost always requires [...]
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The Franklin County Kentucky PVA office is using Your Mapper’s platform to map its property values county-wide.
Like the Jefferson County KY PVA before them, they see the value in opening up their public information to their citizens, and putting it into an easy-to-understand visual map. It saves their office time and duplication of effort, [...]
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The Jefferson County PVA office in Louisville KY has been, for the last 4 years, a forward thinking government agency willing to use technology to help their citizens save money. They have utilized bird’s-eye imagery internally to cut assessment costs, launched a terrific new website designed by VIA Studio, and have used property value maps [...]
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We’ve gathered detailed car and motor vehicle accident reports from all 120 counties across the state of Kentucky and put them on an interactive map, a heatmap, a mobile phone version, and into our open API.
Each vehicle accident report popup shows you:
the type of collision
the number of killed and injured people
how many vehicles and police [...]
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Apps for Californians has announced its winners. The CA.gov-promoted mashup competition launched in June was a collaboration with Google, Microsoft, Center for Digital Government and ProgrammableWeb.
Our Entry
We grabbed the Cleanup Site and Permitted Facility data from the CA Department of Toxic Substances Control and created a California Environment Report. This mashup provides an interactive map, [...]
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Today Google announced that using Rich Snippets makes it easier for search engines like Google to properly classify your site, recognize and understand its content about a particular place, and make it discoverable to users based on geographic location.
We’ve added these hidden RDFa snippets to all the millions of place detail pages across the Your [...]
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We’ve gotten a number of great testimonials from our clients recently, and wanted to share some of what they have said about our mapping services. Our government customers find GovMapper’s services to be affordable, fast, and easy to implement.
County-wide Property Values
“The ease and speed of putting interactive property maps on our PVA site was astounding. The [...]
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