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Better Data -> Better Apps -> Better Transportation
Last night’s New York Public Transit Data Summit was a resounding success. We had a room packed with passionate and thoughtful people eager to help make public transit in New York more efficient, accessible, and and easy to use.
For more than two hours, the group — comprised of over two dozen transit advocates, mobile and Read more...
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Help open the Big Apple
Delicious data inside. Photo by Anabadili via Flickr.
The effort to open municipal data is an initiative with momentum. Inspired in part by the transparency mandate on the federal level that gave us the first ever White House CIO and data.gov, cities across the country are opening up. One city in particular set the scene Read more...
Ben Fried on ‘The Brian Lehrer Show’ Today
Ben, along with Yonah Freemark of The Transport Politic, will be on WNYC this morning to talk about Mayor Bloomberg's transit platform. The segment should air between 10:30 and 11.
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Community Almanac Redesign
We’re very excited about the new version of the Orton Family Foundation’s Community Almanac that we’ve been working on at TOPP Labs. In this post I’ll share some of the design decisions that went into that project and some of the reasons why things have changed.
Posted in Activity Feeds, Community Involvement, Online Participation Tagged bells & whistles, community, design, Easter eggs, geocode, mapping, user experience 2 Comments
New York Public Transit Data Summit. With Beer.
Access to transportation schedules has been a hot topic lately. Most recently, iPhone developer Chris Schoenfeld has come in conflict with the MTA over schedule data. Chris wrote an app that uses schedules for Metro-North, and the MTA wants him to pay royalties for his use of the data from both past and future sales of his Read more...
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NYC Summer Streets 2009
On Saturday the New York City Department of Transportation and partners kicked off the second annual Summer Streets. A car-free zone was created from 7 AM to 1 PM starting at Read more...
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GeoServer in InfoGEO magazine
GeoServer is featured in an article in InfoGEO magazine. Written by active community member Fernando Quadro, the article is a brief overview of GeoServer. There may not be anything Read more...
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NEWS: What datasets should the Bloomberg administration open up?