Open Cities - Volunteer Developers Visualizing Chicago's Open Data

Posted by Liam Currie on Feb 14, 2013; 5:47pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Open-Cities-Volunteer-Developers-Visualizing-Chicago-s-Open-Data-tp5425.html

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/02/chicagos-secrets-revealed-through-user-friendly-apps/4702/

I love the whimsical approach they take to some of this.  Especially the 2nd City Zoning app <http://secondcityzoning.org/> that uses SimCity2000 as a base for visualizing the city's zoning.  If you type in an address it even reticulates the splines for you :)

-Liam Currie

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