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Combining data with mapping technology.
Map apps located on the Toledo Talk server:
* [[Mapping Lucas County Registered Sex Offenders]]
** http://toledotalk.com/maps
* [[Mapping Toledo Area WiFi Hotspots]]
** http://toledotalk.com/wifi
* [[Toledo properties for sale]]
** http://toledotalk.com/property
Elsewhere:
* [[Toledo Mapping Project]] - TT user "rickreed":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/profile/rickreed created a mapping project, described in this August 2006 Toledo Talk "posting":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/19/2832.
br. Need many more. Look to "WaPo's Local Explorer":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local-explorer/ for possible ideas. Also check out http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com for a ton of Google maps mashups.
br. Other examples:
* "Showing county lines":http://www.propertymaps.com/maps/polylines.php
* "Chicago Crime":http://chicagocrime.org
* "Public schools":http://www.publicschoolportal.com/search.aspx
* Jul 23, 2007 MSNBC story titled "Advocacy mashups harness power of mapping":http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19874475/ _Google Earth Outreach is a new service aimed at non-profits and activists._
* "BBC Berkshire: July 2007 Flood Map":http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110697284745114202648.000435deadb5810139523&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&ll=51.498057,-1.028938&spn=0.147689,0.312424&z=12
** Jul 25, 2007 Guardian "story":http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2007/07/25/turn_to_google_maps_for_flood_updates.html
*** _BBC Berkshire is among the organisations turning to the web to collect information on England's severe flooding._
* "Scoredcard.org":http://scorecard.org - Pollution Information - mainly text-based and not map-based
* "Neighborhood Knowledge California":http://nkca.ucla.edu/ (NKCA) _- "serves":http://www.urbanstrategies.org/programs/infotech/nkca.html as statewide, interactive website that assembles and maps a variety of databases that can be used in neighborhood research. Its aim is to promote greater equity in housing and banking policy by providing a set of web-based tools for documenting and analyzing trends. In addition, it functions as a geographic repository for users to map their own communities by uploading their own datasets._
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