Mapping Data in Your Town
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There is a lot of data in the Your Mapper platform. Our datasets are collected by a variety of methods, from public data feeds, formatted and unformatted data, and through an official agreement with a city, state, or public entity. Now there is a way for you to see which ones come from official sources, [...]
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The Louisville PVA has provided Your Mapper with official recent residential home sale data for the city of Louisville, KY, and we’ve turned it into an interactive map for you.
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The Louisville PVA has provided Your Mapper with official property foreclosure data for the city of Louisville, KY, and we’ve turned it into an interactive map for you.
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In addition to being a proponent of open data on the federal level with Data.gov, Washington DC is also hands-down the best municipal area in the entire nation when it comes to putting their data online. That’s why we are thrilled to be one of their Top Non-Government Apps in their new App Store!
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Four years after the first geographic, microlocal websites appeared, some have started to be acquired by larger companies in the hopes of improving local news and data coverage. Yesterday, EveryBlock was purchased by MSNBC.com for undisclosed millions of dollars, and in June AOL acquired both Patch for local news and Going for local music for [...]
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Louisville’s PVA (Property Valuation Administrator) sets all the property values in Jefferson County Kentucky for government and municipal tax purposes. There is a PVA in each county in Kentucky, and they are run by the state government. They have an elaborate internal database that integrates with municipal GIS mapping software that the city [...]
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Your Mapper has launched a new site just for municipal and state government agencies called GovMapper. This site targets local government departments and explains to them exactly how the Your Mapper Platform can help them get their data online to their public simply, inexpensively, and lightning fast.
Government’s Problem
Government agencies are overburdened by Freedom of [...]
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The Louisville Metro Police Department tracks crime reports across the city’s metro area. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, we get these crimes and map each report since January of 2003, over 6 years of data! This makes it by far the most comprehensive crime map of Louisville Jefferson County crime available anywhere [...]
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Jeremiah Andrick over at the Cubicle Punk Blog has posted an interesting article about a city council in Ohio that sent a cease and desist letter (Page 1 and 2) to a local website. The site, called Everything Conneaut Ohio, is under fire because they post information about the city, and the council thinks [...]
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Allowing the public and news organizations unfettered access to federal, state, and local governments’ non-private data is essential. One good way to do this is to make the data available online, thus reducing the agency’s costs trying to manually fill individual freedom of information act requests. However, this solution is not without its caveats, as [...]
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