If you are working toward transparency on your local municipality website, the Illinois Policy Institute offers 10 guidelines to help cover the bases. Clearly these are needed because the top players that were audited in the state got only about 50 out of 100 points!
- Patch.com (Downer’s Grove, Illinois)
To help navigate this terrain, staff members in the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) developed NYCityMap, a Web-based interactive mapping application that offers a one-stop information shop for those on the prowl. And the cost to utilize this tool? Nada, zip, zilch — it’s free.
It uses GeoServer and Dojo.
John Morgan III, a professor in the Towson (Maryland) department of geography and environmental planning, has introduced a new map to provide information on the cause of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or other emergencies. Maryland safeMAP, a graphical interface map will provide the public with relevant geographical information for use in the case of an emergency. Next up? Expanding it beyond Maryland.
