Monday, December 7, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Iconography Service
A Web Service that returns a MILSTD 2525C icon in PNG format given echelon (size) and proponent type (unit):
For example:
http://dev.bridgeborn.com/symbology/
This could easily be extended to include other iconography standards.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Wiktionary
We have created a proof of concept here using XAMPP and AWS:
http://dev.os.bridgeborn.com/wiktionary/
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Bad Practices of Linked Data

Urban EcoMap San Francisco is a great site that lets you explore emissions by zip code on a color-coded map:

Sadly, however, the link it not accessible!
Where is the URL for this data? It's hidden behind a Flash control.

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Mashing up Virginia Beach Police Data with Google Docs
You can query for all crimes going back to January 1, 2006 (why only that far back?) up to the present day. But you can look at exactly 15 results at a time.

Shortcomings notwithstanding, here's what Pilot reporters can do right now for free:
Compile and publish Google spreadsheets with charts:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtBw9czGJjSTdGZGVzh3MzdzWEQ1SzJ6NTJDbl9taHc
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtBw9czGJjSTdFdlaEEwT2Y1RGotdGNWU2w4WDh3Nnc
Wow, who knew that 72% of all crime in Virginia Beach occurs at the Oceanfront?
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Ten Things My City Can Do to Improve Our Website
- Publish events in iCal format
- Publish electronic police reports as XML
- Publish 311 data (as XML)
- Geocode public works projects
- Implement short, guessable URLs
- Use a free mapping service
- Update the Transportation Data Management System
- Add a "Web-Friendly" link next to "Printer-Friendly"
- Create a data catalog
- Get a .gov address
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Gov 2.0 Doers
There has been some criticism that Gov 2.0 is:
- Just another buzz word
- Just people talking about stuff, no one doing stuff
- Brian Sobel, InnovationGeo, Are You Safe, iLive.at
- Dmitry Kachaev, D.C. OCTO R&D
- Philip Ashlock, Open Planning Project, Open 311
- Josh Tauberer, GovTrack.us
- Jim Gilliam, act.ly, GovLuv.org, TweetProgress.us, WhiteHouse2.org, and NationBuilder.com
- Andrew Turner, GeoCommons, FortiusOne
- Everyone at Sunlight Labs
- Carl Malamud, public.resource.org
- Jen Pahlka, Code for America
- Leonard Lin, Code for America
- Steve Ressler, GovLoop
- Noel Hidalgo, New York State Office of the CIO
- Raymond Yee, UC Berkeley
- Peter Corbett, iStrategy Labs, Apps for Democracy
- Kevin Merritt, Socrata.com
- Hillary Hartley, NICUSA, Citizen Space
- Guy Martin, Forge.mil
- Silona Bonewald, League of Technical Voters, citability.org
- Kevin Connor, LittleSis.org
- Greg Elin, United Cerebral Palsy
- Noel Dickover, DoD Office of the CIO, DoDTechipedia.mil
- Jon Udell, Microsoft, ElmCity
- Kim Patrick Kobza, Neighborhood America
- Jay Nath, City of San Francisco
- Wayne Moses Burke, Open Forum Foundation
- Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum
- George Thomas, GSA
- Alan Silberberg, You2Gov.org
- Steve Lunceford, GovTwit.com
- Joseph Porcelli, Neighbors for Neighbors
- Luke Fretwell, GovFresh
- Chris Rasmussen, Intellipedia, NGO
- Pam Broviak, MuniGov 2.0
- Bill Greeves, MuniGov 2.0, Roanoke County, VA
- Jeff Levy, EPA Web Manager, Federal Web Managers Council
- Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock, chicagocrime.org




