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[Nicole Hori]

Here is another way of sorting the possible needs teams could
address. Hopefully most of the work for an item in one category could
easily transfer to another in that category. I know this list should
go up on the wiki so others can expand it, but I don't have access
yet.

Community input, output to City
• Potholes/needed repairs
• Park bathroom status
• Tail light notifications
• Neighborhood Watch
• Obstructions to bikeways/pedestrians

Allow user input to maps for public reference
• (Fruit) Trees
• Water Fountains
• Walking/Cycling routes
• Bulky pickup finds
• Food security locator app
• Buy Local/Shopping
• Parking garage height clearances
• Events

Database input to maps (real time)
• Bus Arrival times http://hea.thebus.org/
• Delays due to traffic accidents, broken water mains, downed power
pole, etc nixle.com
• Using Google Maps roadspeed data http://kokuatraffic.com/

Database input to maps (periodic)
• Events
• Neighborhood Watch http://www.honolulupd.org/statistics/d1-2.htm
• Crime mapping
• Multimodal Trip Planning that avoids roadwork
• Upcoming construction projects (CIP)
o Funding, start date, progress, traffic impacts
http://www1.honolulu.gov/ddc/ontheroad.htm
• SWEETS
• Restaurant inspection reports
• Wind speed, rainfall, solar intensity, etc.

Database input to maps (static)
• Parking Spots (including a search by ones that aren’t being towed
at a given time)
• Art
• Landmarks and history
• Closest recycling center, lifeguard stations (see GIS4Hackers Part
1)

Access to data owned by the city (while protecting confidentiality)
• Archives and records
• Budget Data (revenues and spending)
• Reduce effort to create announcements and newsletters by creating
templates
• Subscribe to email from a department

Things to promote civic involvement
• NB/City Council announcements
• Sunlight Foundation – style app
• Telecasts of meetings/audio streaming
• Neighborhood blogs
• Grassroots organization tools
• Community petition management system
• Feedback about city services/apps
• Progress updates on items submitted by users
• Food security locator app
• Volunteer Opportunities
• Poll Worker Guide/Election Tools
• Ethics/Citizen Oversight/Tranparency/Financial Disclosures

Notifications
• License and registration renewal notifications
• Trash/Recycling pickups
• Tow Alert
• Bus arrival
• Events

Amenities
• Wifi Nodes
• Vacant shops to create city offices/computer access points/other
assistance?
• Expanded online services
• Open 311
• Solar powered trash cans
• Carpooling coordination

Overall
• Create APIs to provide data
• Use ESRI maps and APIs that have been developed
• Review apps created by other cities
• Use Design Thinking
• Get people to use the resources that are already available
• Have a list of data available
• Open Data Hackathon
• Reach out to the Untapped community
• Use OpenBlock to aggregate and display data
• Marketing and outreach to make people aware of the information that
is available
• Location Awareness
• City and state common format
• City council and City administration
o Can-do Honolulu could be integrated with things from council
meetings

[Questor Lau]

Land Use Permits and Information!

Partial list of what's avail at the Dept of Planning and Permitting...
and some thoughts as to why it's important:
http://allkindsdrafting.blogspot.com/2012/01/access-to-public-records.html

i'm an architectural grad student at UHM looking for potential techie
partners to help compile this info and implement it.
que...@allkinds.org or my cell: 306-9236

On Jan 6, 6:41 am, Nicole Hori <nkh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is another way of sorting the possible needs teams could
> address.  Hopefully most of the work for an item in one category could
> easily transfer to another in that category.  I know this list should
> go up on the wiki so others can expand it, but I don't have access
> yet.
>
> Community input, output to City
> •     Potholes/needed repairs
> •     Park bathroom status
> •     Tail light notifications
> •     Neighborhood Watch
> •     Obstructions to bikeways/pedestrians
>
> Allow user input to maps for public reference
> •     (Fruit) Trees
> •     Water Fountains
> •     Walking/Cycling routes
> •     Bulky pickup finds
> •     Food security locator app
> •     Buy Local/Shopping
> •     Parking garage height clearances
> •     Events
>
> Database input to maps (real time)

> •     Bus Arrival timeshttp://hea.thebus.org/

> •     Delays due to traffic accidents, broken water mains, downed power
> pole, etc  nixle.com
> •     Using Google Maps roadspeed data  http://kokuatraffic.com/
>
> Database input to maps (periodic)
> •     Events
> •     Neighborhood Watch  http://www.honolulupd.org/statistics/d1-2.htm
> •     Crime mapping
> •     Multimodal Trip Planning that avoids roadwork
> •     Upcoming construction projects (CIP)

>    o    Funding, start date, progress, traffic impactshttp://www1.honolulu.gov/ddc/ontheroad.htm