tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22737480.post246683983710584629..comments2023-10-03T04:42:15.239-04:00Comments on Metro Mapper Blog: The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization WebsiteMetro Mapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740399871766121926noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22737480.post-27996829705365582802008-05-15T15:32:00.000-04:002008-05-15T15:32:00.000-04:00Hi Michael,What a great initiative! You should get...Hi Michael,<BR/>What a great initiative! You should get in touch (if you haven't already) with <A HREF="http://www.publicus.net/" REL="nofollow">Steven Clift</A>, who should be a great ally, especially for delving into the issue of municipal data standardization. I'm glad you're finding Sunlight's work and our PublicMarkup.org site useful. Thanks for the mention/link!<BR/>Best,<BR/>Gabriela (Sunlight's Communications Dir.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22737480.post-78607681518980433482008-05-14T13:31:00.000-04:002008-05-14T13:31:00.000-04:00Thanks for the feedback Amanda, and a great exampl...Thanks for the feedback Amanda, and a great example of its use. I'd love to see a built in map feature on the sites too, but I think that might have to wait for version 2 of the OMG Standard. <BR/><BR/>With Your Mapper though, you would get the data, load it onto our site, and turn it into a map easily. Then everyone can see it visually and put the map on their own site.Metro Mapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740399871766121926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22737480.post-8556815193617035282008-05-14T11:57:00.000-04:002008-05-14T11:57:00.000-04:00I can't tell you how much I love this idea. The s...I can't tell you how much I love this idea. The students in my Administrative Law class think I'm nuts because of how excited I get when I talk about the Freedom of Information Act. <BR/><BR/>When I was practicing law, we spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort trying to access government records. As one example, we wanted to get Discharge Monitoring Reports <BR/>(DMRs) from the Kentucky Division of Water; these are reports every entity with a permit to discharge water into a stream has to produce showing exactly what is coming out of their discharge pipe. There are way too many DMRs for the limited government staff to monitor and enforce, so we wanted to see the DMRs basically to HELP the government do its job. But it was such a bureaucratic time drain to request and get the DMRs every few months. How terrific it would be if these were easily accessible to the public online! It would be extra cool if they were synched up with a map feature so people could see what's going into the streams around them.<BR/><BR/>I'm eager to see how this idea progresses! Nice work.<BR/><BR/>-Amanda M.ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436545454396823012noreply@blogger.com