Launched a year ago, the website allows parents to view day care options and put their kids on waiting lists for all centres that meet their needs.
The new map, worth $231,000, will let parents look for licenced child-care providers along their route to work, for example, or near their home.
The website has placed more than 1,000 kids in child care in the five months since it's been fully implemented province-wide.
I wonder if the new map will encourage more placements. I wonder how much the original registry cost to put online. You must register to see the registry/map.
- Winnepeg Sun
A remarkable new online map lets people see hyperlocal U.S. Census information about Boston down to individual streets.
The “myNeighborhood Census Viewer” will soon include a vast amount of other info, ranging from police districts to the location of libraries, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), which created the map.
The map requires virtually no technical know-how. Users simply drag the mouse on an area—anything from a street to a block to the entire city—and the site instantly provides detailed Census data for it. The data is clearly presented as a pie chart.
I wish I agreed with the "requires virutally no technical know-how" part. I continue to find the Flex interface for ArcGIS Server apps hard to navigate. In particular, I don't find it follows the priciple of simplicity key to good user interfaces. Why all the different selection tools? Provide a default and hide the rest, please!
- Jamaica Plain Gazette
If you are sex offender in Springfield, IL and you are homeless, you won't be on the offender map. You will have to report where you live while not not in jail, but those locations are not on the map. Why not? Per Greene County Sex Offender Registrar Lisa Simmons:
Simmons said the computer database doesn't allow for those locations to be entered. Only numbered street addresses can be entered, she said.
Morover, per state law a list of locations is required, but a map of them is not.
- Springfield News Leader
