Okay, before I dive in, a few things. 1) Sorry for the lack of posts last week. Life’s been hectic. Between Code for America, a number of projects and a few articles I’m trying to get through, the blogging slipped. Sorry. 2) I’m presenting on Open Data and Open Government to the Canadian Parliament Access [...]
Entries tagged as “google maps”
How Yelp Could Help Save Millions in Health Care Costs
The Three Laws of Open Government Data
Yesterday, at the Right To Know Week panel discussion – Conference for Parliamentarians: Transparency in the Digital Era – organized by the Office of the Information Commissioner I shared three laws for Open Government Data that I’d devised on the flight from Vancouver. The Three Laws of Open Government Data: If it can’t be spidered [...]
Creating a City of Vancouver that thinks like the web
Last November my friend Mark Surman – Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation – gave this wonderful speech entitled “A City that Thinks Like the Web” as a lunchtime keynote for 300 councillors, tech staff and agency heads at the City of Toronto’s internal Web 2.0 Summit. During the talk the Mayor of Toronto took [...]
Google Walk
No it is not the swagger of a recently bought out start-up founder, it is the very cool new feature google map just threw in. Normally, when you get directions on google maps it assumes you are in a car, so shows you the fastest route as if you are driving. This means that it [...]
Urban Public Transit Done Right
Metronauts, eat your hearts out. :) Was back in Vancouver yesterday. It was a glorious day – the kind that you write in your blog about. Anyway, rode the bus downtown for several meetings and noticed this sign: In short, you can now text “33333″ + the identifying number found on every bus stop in [...]
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