Mapping Data in Your Town
From the category archives:
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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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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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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Last week we attended a state-wide municipal government conference and pitched our data mapping services to the decision makers in local government. The Kentucky League of Cities conference brought together mayors, clerks, council members, and police from cities around the state, all looking to improve their cities.
Since governments are our main clients for mapping (though [...]
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NYC’s BigApps contest is coming to a close, with only 2 days left in the voting. Our submission is called NYC BigMaps, and if you haven’t supported us yet by voting, please take a moment to register then do so.
This submission is a completely new website, targeted just to the citizens of New [...]
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We previously discussed NYC’s BigApps contest and our Your Mapper submission. Today we’d like to tell you about our second submission called NYC BigMaps.
This submission is a completely new website, targeted just to the citizens of New York, NY, much like Metro Mapper is targeted to Louisville, KY. It was built in only [...]
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The city of New York is following in the footsteps of Washington DC and San Francisco by opening some of their municipal data, and then creating a public application contest. They call it NYC BigApps, a play on “The Big Apple.”
Your Mapper grabbed two of the public datasets (restaurant inspections and service calls), converted [...]
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