http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/CitySondage-Montreal-meeting-results-tp696p698.html
a girl could get lost just haging out here! Amazing what a combination of cheap rent and
good food and bylaw officials who seem to not mind looking the other way will do to
Do go to the wiki if you get a chance put a little bio of yourself there! Others will
For the rest of you warren is an ole gis class made, urban agriculturist statistician
Tracey P. Lauriault
>
> Hello Traci,
>
> Congratulations.
>
> Local level information is getting technically easier to do. The internet
> and relational databases make moving across scale also more doable.
>
> Political will may take some time. There is still a fear of "too much
> knowledge" being a bad thing, especially from many modernists still in
> gatekeeper positions. Perhaps cutting out the middle men might be
> helpful...the straight goods please.
>
> I remember going through Montreal with John Clarke's 3rd year historical
> geography course class. The change in the architecture over time was
> interesting to see. The transition from a heirarchical vertically
> integrated wholesale export society to a local network retail ortientation
> can be seen to fluctuate over the last four hundred years.
>
> Happy summer,
>
>
> WWM
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Lauriault
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:18 PM
> To:
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> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] CitySondage - Montreal meeting results
>
>
> Hi gang!
>
> This city of Montreal has me so preoccupied with sensory input - sights,
> sounds, smells,
> textures and heat that i have not had the chance to send you a brief about
> Monday night's
> CivicAccess meeting. Lucky! Today is a rainy Saturday afternoon at an Ile
> sans Fil
> hotspot - Romolo - & I can now take a minute to send you some news! Alas!
> the paper with
> my notes is with coco the cat! So i will share only the global view of a
> planned activity.
>
> Bref -
>
> A National city/county/municipality CivicAccess activity was proposed - and
> well
> - dang it - it's a pretty good idea!
>
> *CitySondage*
>
> The objective:
> Understand & communicate the availability & accessibility of civic data in
> useable formats
> at the municipal/city/county scale across the country and effectively
> communicate
> their/our degree of data civicness.
>
> The Aim:
> Collaboratively create a simple, intuitive & esthetically pleasing civic
> data
> accessibility map of Canada's cities/municipalities/counties etc. and
> communicate results to Canadians
>
> General activities:
> 1. Contact a minimum of 15 city/municipal/county offices across the country
> 2. Request a series of data sets within a set of predetermined themes (e.g.
> environment,
> council votes, boundary files, etc.).
> 3. Assess, based on a set of criteria, how accessible these data are.
> 4. Map accessibility results
> 5. Use the map to inform dialogue on the topic of data civicness in Canada
>
> Conclusion
> The activity is an easy short-term collective project for civicaccess.ca
> that yields an
> artifact, which readily, easily and tangibly communicates the complex topic
> of civic data
> accessibility in Canada to Canadians.
>
> Hope you like it!
> A small assignment follows this email, a wiki page was created for this
> activity -
> <a