LIfe at the intersection of cities, towns, open data, and awesome.
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Where are the best public parks? According to The Trust for Public Land, there are cities with great parks from the West to the East Coast. Find out where your city ranked at Co.Exist.
It’s tough work being a local government in the United States these days. Cuts in federal and state grants, stagnant tax bases and diminished borrowing continue to produce budget shortfalls … The result has been a downward spiral for many of our nation’s communities.
At Neighbor.ly, our mission is to help these communities continue to pay for these civic projects by leveraging the power of crowdfunding and other sources.
Crowdfunding for civic projects — this is pretty cool. Read more on the Knight Foundation blog.
Nelson Minar made maps of all the contiguous United States’ rivers. The results are stunning.
We’re very excited and grateful today to announce a $4 million grant from the Knight Foundation to support and expand Sunlight’s work.
Have you checked out Sunlight’s OpenGov grant opportunities yet?
“We are offering one-time grants in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 to help you fulfill your vision of making government more transparent and accountable.”
What makes you excited about open government?
This is awesome:
“If you use a bike-share system, you likely rely on an app that gives you a real-time distribution of the bikes and empty docks in your area. Oliver O’Brien, a researcher with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London, has built a map that does this same thing, simultaneously, for bike-shares all over the world.”
“Kentucky’s Finance and Administration Cabinet now offers the Citizen Tax Calculator on the state’s transparency portal, OpenDoor.ky.gov. By entering the amount of state taxes you paid, you can see specifically how your tax money was spent by the state.”
The Guardian’s Data Journalism workflow.
