http://openplans.org Technology for a better society Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:37:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Meet Gabe Klein who was appointed new director of Washington D.C.'s Department of Transportation (DDOT) in December 2008.  With an interesting background which includes four years ... http://openplans.org/2009/07/dc%e2%80%99s-dot-director-talks-%e2%80%9ctransportation-freedom%e2%80%9d/ 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 ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/hacking-the-city-recap/ 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, ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/mapping-a-better-world/ Join us at Personal Democracy Forum on Monday, June 29, for Hacking The City: Grab a cocktail and join Streetsblog.org editor-in-chief Aaron Naparstek, members of The Open Planning Project, and John Geraci, the founder of DIYcity.org, for a freewheeling discussion of how online journalism, advocacy and community-building tools are being ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/629-hacking-the-city-at-personal-democracy-forum/ Who knew there are over 3000 block parties in New York City each summer?  Well, we’ve just launched BlockPartyNYC.org to be the go-to site for everything ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/block-party-nyc-site-launched/ The developers at OpenGeo have been working with others toward an initial release of the GeoExt toolkit.  GeoExt brings together the spatial capabilities of OpenLayers with ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/geoexplorer-preview/ We just put up a new case study about how Western Australia's is leveraging open source software and collaborative mapping. As the government authority responsible for land and property information, Landgate manages data that underpins hundreds of civil services. Landgate had TOPP's OpenGeo division build a prototype for collaborative mapping, ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/open-source-for-government-landgate/ On Friday, I took my first trip up to Albany for the first (fingers crossed) CapitolCamp, an unconference put together by the NY State Senate CIO and the NY State CIO.A real range people and experiences were represented: private citizens who had a specific need, public servants who can see the process ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/capitolcamp/ I’ve been having some discussions with people at the Chicago Open Government group, talking about data openness. One common complaint all around is about data ... http://openplans.org/2009/06/does-usefully-open-data-have-to-mean-xml/ New York City recently launched CityMap2.0, an application "bursting with souped-up mapping features." The map offers plenty of helpful city data, from Federal Stimulus projects to service centers of all types. An article in Government Technology explains:"It's one of our most heavily used applications. We got a lot of requests for ... http://openplans.org/2009/05/nyc-powers-up-citymap20-using-geoserver/