OpenPlans Transportation, in partnership with Cambridge Systematics, is excited to announce that we have been selected to implement MTA Bus Time (real-time bus tracking) on all of Staten Island’s local and express bus routes by 2012! Bus Time will be expanded to all of New York City shortly thereafter, eventually covering the MTA’s 6000 local and Read more…
Lee Altman’s work explores the connection of citizens in urban environments to their water and sewer systems. And it highlights the disconnect. Because people in general just don’t think about where their water comes from and then where it goes. Lee’s work explores ways to foster engagement between people, the ecosystem and their water. Lee took the reins at Read more…
Streetsfilms’ Clarence Eckerson, Jr visited the city of Guadalajara, hosted by Guadalajara 2020, to take in the street life of the Mexico’s 5th largest city. Clarence entered the city as a hero; was interviewed, appeared on the front page, toured its bustling livable streets, frowned at its un-livable streets and then came back to NYC Read more…
OpenPlans throws out the orange carpet and grandly welcomes Julia West to Civic Works. Julia’s past experience as an entrepreneur, web designer and social do-gooder puts her in the enviable position to further OpenPlans’ work of improving civic engagement, making information accessible and just plain making the world a better place. Julia took some time to Read more…
Be like that guy and run to the Streets of the Future Times running out to buy tickets. Get them here: Streets of the Future 2011 Tickets Streets of the Future: A Benefit To Support Streetsblog and Streetfilms Thursday, November 17, 2011, 7:00 PM Bicycle Habitat, 476 5th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn Step lively! The event is Read more…
OpenPlans welcomes Martin Davis, a leading figure in the geospatial development community, to the OpenGeo team. Martin will be working out of OpenGeo’s Victoria office. Prior to joining us Martin contributed to the development of the JTS Topology Suite, and also initiated the JUMP Universal Mapping Platform, JCS Conflation Suite and RoadMatcher projects. At this years FOSS4G conference, Martin Read more…
Expense reports, expense report. So vital to spend the money, so horrible to make the reports. We brainstormed on ways to get OpenPlansers to submit their expense reports on time: ”Let’s punish those who are late” “Let’s reward those who are early!” “Let’s have knife fights!” Clearer heads prevailed we realized a carrot, not a Read more…