Recently, TOPP Labs embarked on a joint venture with Transportation Alternatives to build a “Candidate Survey” website, showing New York users how their local political candidates responded to a TA survey. TA is going to build the public-facing site, and TOPP is going to build a back-end service that does geographic lookup of candidates based Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who came to the Hacking the City event last night at Personal Democracy Forum. The NYFI blog at the NY Observer has a nice write-up: The conversation was led by members of The Open Planning Project, DIYcity founder John Geraci, and Streetsblog editor-in-chief Aaron Naparstek, who began by opening up the floor Continue reading
The Economist, in its June 6th 2009 issue article “Mapping a better world,” discusses the role maps play in effecting social change. They seem to miss, however, how open source tools directly influence this development. Open source mapping is not about budgeting for the non-profit with limited resources. Rather, it provides solutions that work for Continue reading