Mark your calendar! Streetsblog and Streetfilms are throwing a party on November 17, and if you’ll be in New York, we’d love to see you there. City Council Member Brad Lander will be the featured speaker as we celebrate the livable streets victories of the past year and look ahead to 2012. Stay tuned for more details and ticket information. Streets of the Future: A Benefit Read more…
Clarence Eckerson was recently at Harvard Graduate School of Design for a screening of selected Streetfilms. Check out the follow-up Q&A session, moderated by Harvard GSD Assistant Professor Michael Hooper. via Harvard GSD News
Sam Pepple worked for the last three years at National Geographic. Starting in NG Maps as an intern, Sam was soon hired to design and produce maps and graphics for the Thematic Section of the 9th Ed. Atlas of the World. After the atlas, he was hired by National Geographic magazine to make maps and Read more…
Its been a bus-y week in the world of bus issues and here’s some stories that have kept us OpenPlans’ers chatting. AC Transit Alameda Contra Costa has opened their bus schedule, bus route, bus stop and schedule data availableto developers Check it out. This website for shop owners along the B63 – uses our tracking Read more…
Dan Melton the Chief Technology Officer at Code for America stopped by OpenBag last week. Imagine Doctors Without Border equipped with ergonomic keyboards instead of scalpels. Its like the Peace Corps without the international airfare and the dust. Code for America connects our city and state governments with developers and programmers. Their annual crew of fellows build code and API’s for Read more…
NYC’s Bike Share program is coming in Summer 2012, and the NYC Department of Transportation wants to hear your voice on where to put the bike sharing kiosks. Last week DOT launched the NYC Bike Share website, built by us. Its’s time for you to participate in this civic important matter. Find where you live, where Read more…
Eva Shon joins the growing OpenPlans Transportation team working on transit tracking projects. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in User Experience and Interaction Design. What has Eva been up to, where’s she been and where is she taking us, and you? Read on… What do you wish to pursue professionally? I love maps and Read more…