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Aaron on stage last week at State of the Map US talking about OSM data tiles.

#citibike data night, June 26th

Join us at a special betaNYC meetup dedicated to NYC’s bike share data! Ding ding!

Talking Democracy Data

Mjumbe learns how journalists can benefit from open civic data.

Check us out at Spontaneous Interventions in Chicago

We’re excited to be featured in Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, an exhibition in Chicago. Check out our work for NYCDOT on the NYC Bike Share program, hanging on a giant banner. The popup exhibit in Millennium Park features a diverse array of inspirational projects about positive change in cities and neighborhoods. More Read more…

Mjumbe will talk at the May JavaScript Meetup

Mjumbe will speak about using Backbone.js at the the May JavaScript Meetup in Philly on Thursday, May 30.

Going to the 2013 Mayors’ Innovation Summit? Be on the look out for Aaron & Mjumbe

Aaron and Mjumbe will be at the 2013 Mayor’s Innovation Summit in Philadelphia.

OpenGeo spins-off from OpenPlans

We’re proud to announce that OpenGeo has spun out from OpenPlans to form its own independent company.

Content Management Tools for Community Boards

NYC Community Board’s have mountains of documents related to land use in their districts. Only a small fraction of these have been scanned and put online as pdfs, but they are not fully searchable. We want to change to make this data readily available to the public.

Civic Relationships: Hackers + Planners + Citizens

I recently sat down with a group of passionate planners, hackers, and citizens at the APA Intelligent Cities Unconference morning session to discuss “Online Public Participation.” We all agreed that meaningful citizen input is often hindered by citizens not having all the facts or not being able to examine the data.
But this is a difficult challenge, as planners generally have insufficient resources to help citizens understand the issues, especially online.

Heading to Transparency Camp? Check out Mjumbe’s “Selling Transparency” talk

Mjumbe Poe will be at Transparency Camp 2013. Check out his talk, “Selling Transparency”

Discussing the future of your neighborhood together

Everyone has concerns and ideas about their communities. Where does one go to be heard? A first stop is the staff of your Community Board, who often can either point you to existing resources, or take your issue to the Board for discussion. But what if you want to do more than just register a suggestion or complaint?

We’re hosting #BetaTalk, 5/1

Join us and BetaNYC at our NYC office for the first #BetaTalk. We’ll hear a report back on Code For America‘s programs and meet their NYC team! More details and RSVP.

Aaron Ogle presents our work with Leaflet, at GeoNYC April Meetup

Aaron Ogle presenting our Leaflet-based mapp apps at the Geo NYC April Meetup.

Atlantic Cities covers CRASH stories NYC, created by Transportation Alternatives with open source Shareabouts

Atlantic Cities covers CRASH stories NYC, created by Transportation Alternatives with open source Shareabouts -

“I’ve heard from so many citizens that ‘I see people almost get hit here all the time, and how come we have to wait until somebody gets killed in order to fix it?’” Godzeno says. Actual crash data, though, is the only metric officials have to prioritize where to target infrastructure improvements or stricter traffic enforcement.

So how do you document events significant for the fact that they almost happened? Transportation Alternatives recently rolled out a web platform, CRASH stories NYC, that invites New Yorkers to map their run-ins and near-misses.

– Mapping the Car Crash Near Misses That No One Ever Sees, Emily Badger in Atlantic Cities.

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