Community Driven GIS

Have you ever wanted to raise awareness to your local officials about an issue? An annoying pot hole…graffiti…missing street sign or even limited road access due to flooding? Recently, my colleagues at MAGIC and I attended Ignite Spatial Hartford and we were introduced to a product that promises to facilitate the communication of citizen reported issues to local officials. See Click Fix utilizes Smartphone technology along with GIS to allow users to report non-emergency issues such as those listed above. Although there were plenty of interesting presentations at Ignite Spatial Hartford (especially by our own Curtis Denton), this one in particular caught my eye for its shear practicality. This use of powerful telecommunication and GIS technologies seems to have the potential to enable a more efficient, citizen-driven use of public resources for the benefit of the whole community!

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