Urban Studies and Open Data

Date: 2009.11.30 | Category: In the News, Technology | Tags: Open Data

Our newest addition to the team- Mike Dror

A few weeks ago Anil mentioned that if a picture can tell a thousand words, an interactive map can tell a million. Viagra sale Levitra achat Not bad. I think I’m in the right field of study. Levitra contraindicaciones Over the counter viagra Cheap viagra online

My name is Mike Dror and I’m an Urban Studies student at the University of Toronto. Levitra pill I’ve been interning at Framework for the past few months as part of a seminar titled Urban Experiential Learning, where each student is placed at one of various urban organizations that range from small, non-profit organizations such as Framework, to larger public service institutions such as a Toronto City Councilor’s office.

The major part of my internship involves a long term project whose goal is to build on aspects of the Civic Footprint programming through the use of interactive mapping. A few weeks ago this project received a huge boon as the City of Toronto (finally) launched its open data set catalogue, following Vancouver’s example. The catalogue includes previously-unavailable data that can be used within Geographic Information Systems for analysis and display.

I’ve already felt the impact of Prospecto levitra the launch, both at Frame work and within my own Viagra sin receta work. Viagra levitra Purchase viagra Pastillas levitra Viagra alternatives For a personal research project on the relationship between transit availability and demographics I’ve been using the newly-posted TTC Routes and Schedules data. For Framework I downloaded the Wards shapefile that contains boundaries for Toronto’s forty-four wards, a data set I could have used a month ago before Viagra for women I tediously drew them out myself, with far less accuracy. Brand viagra

The point is this. Online levitra The catalogue received almost four thousand visits on it s fir Levitra pas cher st day and over fifteen hundred download s in it Kauf von viagra s first week. Over the next few weeks we’ll be looking at how we can use these to target information on organizations and resources through interactive mapping towards those who need and want them. Purchase viagra online Viagra bestellung Check back soon for an update. Kaufen viagra Levitra prix pharmacie