Real-time Visualization of Place-based Comments www.PlaceVision.net
Jun 19, 2015
Real-time Visualization of Place-based Comments
www.PlaceVision.net
Citizens Add Comments to Remarks Map: 46 Comments, 4 Deleted in real-time
Citizen Comment Timeline
Mayor’s Office of Citizen Services, 311 Call and Resolution Center,Grow WNY, Buffalo Green CodeAnnounce Workshops
First Buffalo Green CodeCommunity Workshop
Last Community Workshop, Grown WNY encourages map use
Facebook & Twitter reminder to post comments to the map, 631 Impressions
Overall page view activity
matches
activity for those that made
remarks,
except at larger scale.
10 Comments: 2pm
7 Comments: 4pm
7 Comments: 8pm
Follow up comments from the
workshops were made first thing
in the morning (between 8am -
10am)
Most Comments are of good quality
Each table could have a scribe to insert commentslive. A projected view of the map, refreshed every 30 seconds, would display the most recent comments from residents about their community.
Community Remarks website would have enabled real-time visualization of the comments as the meeting was taking place.
Instead, comments are going into GIS first, then will be imported into Community Remarks website to see all the comments in one place online
Comments from the workshops could have gone into Community Remarks live, then exported to GIS to save time.
Citizen Remarks + See Click Fix = 1 Map
http://www.buffalogreencode.com/community_remarks/mashup.php
Citizen Remarks + Flickr = 1 Map
http://www.buffalogreencode.com/community_remarks/mashup_flickr.php
Community Remarks captures planning-related comments before, during, and after workshops.
www.CommunityRemarks.com
Data from multiple sources can be imported into GIS to create time-based snapshots of the past and present to create more informed plans.