7 month ago
joshua : Travel-time maps - with integrated house prices. amazing.
philgyford : MySociety » Travel-time maps - Very, very tasty interactive London maps looking at travel times and house prices. (via Haddock)
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16 month ago
philgyford : PlanningAlerts.com | Email alerts of planning applications near you - New to me. It just works. I even get direct links to the council website to comment on each application. Wonderful. This is how council websites should work. (via Tomski)
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18 month ago
Simon Willison : Neighbourhood Fix-It - Neighbourhood Fix-It. Report problems to your council across the UK. The most detailed Ordinance Survey maps anywhere online, and a superb example of progressive enhancement in action—the maps work without JavaScript, and the site even works with
philgyford : Neighbourhood Fix-It - I keep forgetting the name of this. "Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Reports go straight to the council concerned. Excellent. (via Tomski)
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Rod Begbie : privatecopy - epetition reply - The UK goverment has started posting public responses to petitions filed using their "Petition the Prime Minister" site. They're mostly your standard "don't worry your sweet head" brush-off you'd get from writing to your MP, but it's good to see, noneth #
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Victor Keegan writes quite glowingly about ORG and MySociety - He points out that he hasn't seen groups quite like these in any other country of the world. I think, after some initial reserve about their first projects, it would be difficult for me to find fault in the work that MySociety have done recently. Bravo.
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24 month ago
plasticbag : My Society put up some beautiful travel heatmaps a while back that I wanted to talk about but haven't had time - One thing I'd suggest is to overlay maps where the starting location is different (either each major city or tube stop, or at the end of each square half mile). That should give you a sense of which areas in London are best and worst connected...
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27 month ago
joshua : time travel maps - gorgeous visualization of travel time
philgyford : MySociety - Travel-time Maps and their Uses - Lovely maps of travel times around the UK by Lightfoot & Steinberg, data wranglers to the Ministry. (via Haddock)
Simon Willison : Travel-time Maps and their Uses - Fascinating concept, beautiful maps.
Nelson Minar : Travel time maps - Fantastic transportation visualization (via Kottke)
Paul Hammond : mySociety - Travel-time Maps and their Uses - Using colours and contour lines they show how long it takes to travel between one particular place and every other place in the area, using public transport
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29 month ago
plasticbag : MySociety is doing another round of proposals like the ones that triggered Pledgebank, TheyWorkForYou and other sites - "So, whether you have an idea you'd like to propose, or whether you'd just like to read and comment on other people's proposals, you've come to the right place."
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39 month ago
philgyford : 'I will get three friends to sign up to the Proportional Representation Groundswell' - PledgeBank - Tell the world "I'll do it, but only if you'll help" - PledgeBank, a new site from MySociety. Comes with Brian Eno's pledge about proportional representation.
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