{"id":246,"date":"2011-07-14T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/07\/14\/community-driven-gis\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:25:00","slug":"community-driven-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/07\/14\/community-driven-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Driven GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vKbLkliuXew\/Th8clmszOoI\/AAAAAAAAACg\/y-6AxC5_VNg\/s320\/seeclickfix.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand;cursor: pointer;height: 214px;margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;width: 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeclickfix.com\/\">Click to Visit See Click Fix<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever wanted to raise awareness to your local  officials about an issue? An annoying pot hole\u2026graffiti\u2026missing street sign or  even limited road access due to flooding?  Recently, my colleagues at MAGIC and I attended  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurisa.org\/ISH_2011\">Ignite Spatial Hartford<\/a> and we were introduced to a product that promises to  facilitate the communication of citizen reported issues to local officials. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeclickfix.com\/\">See  Click Fix<\/a> 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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurisa.org\/Resources\/Documents\/ISH%202011\/06_Denton_Curtis.pdf\">especially by our own Curtis Denton<\/a>),  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!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to Visit See Click Fix Have you ever wanted to raise awareness to your local officials about an issue? An annoying pot hole\u2026graffiti\u2026missing street sign or even limited road access due to flooding? Recently, my colleagues at MAGIC and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/07\/14\/community-driven-gis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-3Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}