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From Planning to Gaming:Apps for Local Government

Robert Cheethamcheetham@azavea.com

@rcheetham

10% Research ProgramPro Bono ProgramTime-to-Give-Back ProgramEmployee-focused Culture Projects with Social Value

Who is Azavea?

25 people- software engineers- spatial analysts- project managers

Spatial Analysis

High Performance Geoprocessing

User Experience

R&D

Why am I here?

PhillyHistory.org

Our story starts in the City Archives, where the collections present challenges…

The first of which was

ORGANIZATION. With images stored in boxes based on the city unit they

represented (Streets, Schools, etc.), finding any particular image was a significant

challenge.

The second was PRESERVATION. The oldest negatives are combustible, and newer ones are prone

to warping.

The third was ACCESS. To access an image, a visitor would have to go to the archives and have a valid research reason for entrance. Approximately 100 people per year

did this.

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The last was FUNDING. Addressing these challenges was unlikely to be an inexpensive endeavor.

Images that tell the story of a city

Digitization

Public Website

E-Commerce

Location

PhillyTreeMap

Stormwater Billing

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. "Protecting Water Quality from Urban Runoff."

Schuylkill River

Regular Flow

Schuylkill River

Flood of June 2006

Usage Runoff

Stormwater Modeling Game

Stormwater Modeling Game

Stormwater Modeling Game

Small Business Siting Tools

Tax Incentives Commercial Corridor

Health Public Transit Car Share Open Space Farmers’ Markets Street Network Density Recycling Participation Walkability

Siting Decision Factors

Not a new idea… Ian McHarg

Not a new idea … Map Algebra

Desktop GIS

x 5 x 2x 3x 1

+ ++

=

Generate Output Heat Map

The Web is different from the Desktop Lots of simultaneous

users

Stateless environment

HTML+JS+CSS

Users are less skilled

Users are less patient

ArcGIS Server Flex, Silverlight and JS

API’s

Publish tasks and models

Caching

Optimized MSD files

But wait … there’s a problem 10 – 60 second calculation time

Multiple simultaneous users …

… that are impatient

Sustainable Business Network

Distributed Geoprocessing

Success!!

Reduced from 10-60 seconds to

<500 milliseconds

Walkshed.org

Walkshed.org

OMB Watch: Federal Spending Equity

GPU Processing Research

GPUs

GPU geoprocessing research

Crime Data Mining

Animation

Crime Analysis, Early Warning and Forecasting

Risk Forecasting

Communities

Berlin

Berlin

Amsterdam

Madrid

Baghdad

Pretoria

Kinshasa

Build Communities

Learn about OSM & hold a map party

Share data and apps on ArcGIS Online

Host a Hack-a-thon, DataCamp, etc.

Apply for Code for America

Lobby your local government for open data policies

Many Thanks!© Photo used with permission from Alphafish, via Flickr.com

From Planning to Gaming:Apps for Local Government

Robert Cheethamcheetham@azavea.com

@rcheetham