Comment 37377

By UrbanRenaissance (registered) | Posted January 25, 2010 at 12:47:23

jason wrote:

What about publicizing those who own our crumbling downtown buildings....

I'm sure this info could also be publicized on the web...

I had the same thought and it actually ties into something I've been researching ever since Keanin Loomis' article about his search for Signs of Life in the city.

I was looking into creating a crowd-sourced GoogleMap mash-up (or mash-ups) to provide users with an overview of what there is to do in Hamilton and help show off the diverse activities we have to offer.

But I figure this approach would work just as well to provide an easy way to organize and present the Bylaw Crawl data.

You can see an example of what I've done here. Basically I used the Google provided template (with some customizations done by me) to input my points, the spreadsheet then generates the map which you can then link to.

As you can see in the example its possible to customize the "bubble" associated with each point. For the Bylaw Crawl, the bubble could contain the address, description and photo of the building, plus links to more photos, and information to contact the building owner and/or the city.

The spreadsheet can be updated by anyone with a GMail account and internet access, so the map could be updated on-the-fly during the crawl by anyone with a smart phone.

If anyone wants more info about this or wants to join as a collaborator you can send me an email to the City Guide google account I created:

hamiltoncityguide@gmail.com

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