Shareabouts of the World

Mansfield Tomorrow
Mansfield, Connecticut

Mansfield Tomorrow is a Town initiative to shape the future of Mansfield through an updated comprehensive plan and improved zoning. Mansfield Tomorrow will help preserve what’s best about Mansfield, face the challenges of tomorrow, and move community priorities forward.

At the end of this process, they will have a unified plan that identifies how Mansfield will preserve the essential characteristics of the town, where new development should occur and what it should look like, how they will promote local businesses and support farms and how they will seek to make living in Mansfield more affordable.

http://map.mansfieldtomorrow.com/

Georgia Tires Map
Georgia State University, Geospatial Laboratories

This map is used by local Georgia communities to collect data on the location of tires illegally dumped in their neighborhoods. Illegally dumped tires pose a public health threat and can become breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes and rodents.

http://www.gatires.org

Mount Ranier Community Map
Mount Ranier Community Council

There’s a lot going on in the neighborhood. This map by the Community Council asks citizens where their greatest local public spaces are, and where we can do better. 

Every resident is a local expert! 

http://mountrainier-gretabyrum.dotcloud.com/

CRASH Stories
Transportation Alternatives

This map is a record of incidents in New York City where vehicle drivers have endangered pedestrians, bicyclists and other drivers.

It was created for people like you to report about any crashes or “near-misses” that you witnessed or happened to you, whether just now, recently or in the past.

http://www.crashstories.org/

Street Clutter in CB7
Manhattan Community Board 7

There is a lot going on in the Upper West Side’s sidewalks. In order to create a more walkable, livable neighborhood, CB7 is collecting information about existing sidewalk objects.

Every resident is a local expert! Please use this map to tell us about sidewalk clutter.

Where are the benches, newsstands, and food trucks that overcrowd your street? Where are the bollards, planters, and trash baskets that block your way?

Submit locations you know. With your help, we will all have a better understanding of sidewalk clutter in the Upper West Side.

http://cb7.shareabouts.org/

Less Phone Booths
Manhattan Community Board 4

The current contract between New York City and phone booth operators expires in 2014. The Department of Information Technology (DoITT) is working with the public and vendors to envision new technology capabilites for future phone booths to be incorporated in the new contract. 

At the same time, it is important that the public informs the Community Boards and DoITT of those installations that have been problematic and need to be removed so that such removals be incorporated in the future contract. This interactive map created by Manhattan Community Board 4’s Transportation Committee gives you the chance to indentify and comment on these installations.

http://www.lessphonebooths.org/

Urban Social Spaces in Cambridge, MA
Kendall Innovation

This map provides a new way to collect data about where people typically congregate, what types of interactions they have in a given space, and where ideas are generated. Knowing the role of space in interaction can guide future design to encourage productivity.

Kendall Innovation is a group of urban planners, architects and researchers. We are studying where people connect in cities and how cities might foster social connections (and potentially collaboration and innovation). Right now, we’re focusing on the Kendall Square area in Cambridge, MA.

http://urbansocial.shareabouts.org/page/about

Jackson Height Neighborhood Survey
Jackson Heights Beautification Group

Residents of Jackson Heights, New York can map locations they feel are beautiful or in need of improvement. Suggestions such as tree care and green spaces opportunities, transportation needs, places for sitting, traffic sites, volunteer opportunities, ideas for art projects are all welcome.

The Jackson Heights Beautification Group is a grassroots community organization of people who live and work in Jackson Heights and care enough to help make Jackson Heights one of the best neighborhoods in Queens and New York City. JHBG supports high standards; preservation; local pride; diversity; inclusion; cleanliness; greenery; civility; local schools, institutions, and merchants; and anything that enhances Jackson Heights.

http://jacksonheights.shareabouts.org/page/about

Stomping Ground
OpenPlans

Stomping Ground poses a question to children, asking if they feel safe or unsafe walking around in their neighborhood, for example on their walk to school. Kids can mark  places that they feel are fun to walk along or play, and where they feel is dangerous or problematic.  The design uses a sticky dot metaphor, and it works beautifully on touch devices.

We had the work of Safe Route to Schools programs in mind, but this Stomping Ground interface can be useful for many other questions. Just about any topic that relates to a place can be asked: What’s your vision for the new park? Where do you want to put the five new trash compactors? Where are the six community public spaces that you like best?

http://stompingground-civicworks.dotcloud.com/

PDX Bike Share Station Suggestion Map
Portland Bureau of Transportation

This site allows citizens of Portland to suggest potential bike share locations and comment on other’s suggested locations.

http://portlandbikesharestationmap.com/

Historic Louisville
City Collaborative & The University of Louisville’s Urban Design Studio

City Collaborative and the Univeristy of Louisville’s Urban Design Studio believe that Louisville’s cultural and economic success in recent years has been greatly bolstered by large concentrations of architectural treasures.

This map asks Lousivillians to share a personal memory about why specific historical sights are important to them.  They can add historic buildings, places and heritage resources in Louisville. 

For over 40 years the historic preservation movement in Louisville has helped create a city with a unique flavor that is increasingly being recognized as an important cultural center and as a place with a high quality of life thanks to our historic urban neighborhoods.

http://historiclouisville.shareabouts.org/page/about

No Sur!
OpenPlans

No one likes paying ATM surcharges, so why do we do it? Because no one person has the time or inclination to track the every surcharge in every place, and the banks certainly aren’t going to help. But what if we teamed up and shared this information with our neighbors? That’s what No Sur!is all about.

Explore the map to find ATMs near you so you always get the best deal without wasting time. Already been cheated by an ATM? Use No Sur! to add that ATM and surcharge to the map to help others out.

http://nosur.shareabouts.org/page/about

Sister Cities Park Survey

The Sister Cities Park Survey is a tool for collecting metrics about park usage by allowing data collectors to indicate how many people are using park features at a given time. 

http://sistercities.shareabouts.org/page/instructions

Philadelphia Bike Parking Survey
Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia

This survey asks Philadelphians to document the availability of bike parking spots near commuter rail stations.

The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia will use this info to determine how many bicycles can be parked at Philly’s local train stations so the Bicycle Coalition can have better information to advocate for more!

http://bikeparking.shareabouts.org/page/about

NYC Bike Share Station Location Suggestion Map
NYC Department of Transportation

The Bike Share Map builds on the existing open source foundation used for NYCDOT’s transportation feedback portals, using WordPress and the Google Maps API. The site is an example of a simple, straight-forward tool, complementing an existing public participation process.

http://a841-tfpweb.nyc.gov/bikeshare/suggestion-archive/