Last November, Boston’s CIO, Bill Oates, and its GIS manager, Claire Lane, told MHT they’d be expanding the use of GIS beyond snow removal. Today, Universal Hub notes the rollout of the City of Boston GIS Data Hub, which lets users monitor city services:
Hours of fun for data geeks and a potentially useful service to see how your neighborhood is doing (you can overlay wards and city-council districts), and any implications this went online only so the mayor could “wifi” his opponents who’ve been calling for something similar is, of course, completely reprehensible.
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