Posts tagged environment
What Type of Local Government Superhero Are You?
Mar 3rd
By: Shannon Donelson
As a kid I always loved watching superhero cartoons. One of my favorites, was Captain Planet. I thought it was so cool how he saved the environment from all of the polluting bad guys of the world.
We see things around our city every day that we don’t like, whether it’s graffiti in our neighborhood, a pothole, or trash. Wouldn’t it be great if we could be the superhero of our town or city?
If You Could be a Local Government Superhero, What Would You Call Yourself?
I would be, Graffiti Girl - defending our neighborhoods from being defaced by spray paint. Luckily for each of us, we can all be local superheroes. Check out this video below:
So download the app, get out there, and be a superhero! Download the CitySourced app for your smartphone. It’s currently available on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7!
Note: This article was originally featured on Govloop.
Author Info: Shannon Donelson is a Client Engagement Specialist at GovLoop, the largest online government niche social network.
4-H & Fish & Wildlife Service Partners with CitySourced to Collect Baseline Data for San Diego Bay Restoration
Jul 8th
With some spare time and some eager volunteers, it’s super easy to collect data around virtually anything with the CitySourced platform.
On Friday July 8th 2011, 4-H youth (Geo-spatial leadership team) from 7 states assisted US Fish + Wildlife staff to collect base line data for the 10 year restoration plans for the San Diego Bay Salt Marsh Refuges. 4-H youth and their adult volunteer leaders pioneered the use of GPS enabled smart phones using “easy to use” community data application collection app developed by CitySourced.
The results are fascinating and with the help of some free tools from Esri, you can mash them up on virtually any type of map and share them with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. You can even embed the results in your own website (like we did here).
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By the end of the day, the 4-H team of Teens took the data collected using the CitySourced location based mobile reporting platform), and imported the into an online map at arcgis.com. ArcGIS online was able to automatically pick up the meta-data (species type, latitude, longitude, etc.) in the data stream and embed that into the map as well. All that was left was choosing a basemap (satellite imagery, street imagery, etc.) and voila!, the map is created. This data will be used for analysis, display and decision making by US Fish & Wildlife Service planners and managers.
Esri is doing some pretty incredible things with their technology and partner ecosystem, and we’re honored to be collaborating with all of these folks. To learn more about what 4-H is doing with geo-spatial check out 4-H.org.
Stay tuned for more important projects like this one!
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