OpenBaltimore

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OpenBaltimore

Technical.ly Coverage

  • Baltimore City’s Open Budget dashboard is now live

  • Open Baltimore added a new-look directory of the city’s minority and women-owned businesses

  • The City of Baltimore is launching an updated open data portal on December 31

  • From gotcha to collaboration: CitiStat’s growing pains in Baltimore offer lessons for data-driven government

  • Baltimore Tech History 101

  • These Baltimore leaders want the community to help spread civic data

  • Open data bill passes City Council

  • Open data bill set to be filed with Baltimore City Council

  • Baltimore 911 call data is now posted online

  • Baltimore towing data, visualized

  • As SpotCrime grows, fight for police data transparency remains

  • The data behind Baltimore’s crime spike

  • These maps visualize Baltimore’s blight

  • Elliott Plack is putting Baltimore on the OpenStreetMap — and he could use some help

  • Here’s how that map of Baltimore property tax data was made

  • City’s acting CTO on Baltimore’s IT agenda: open data, WiFi

  • Vital Signs 12, new website from Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance

  • View Baltimore’s vacant buildings 300 at a time [MAP]

  • This Ad.com civic hacker is renovating a Baltimore vacant [PHOTOS]

  • #MoneyballChat: Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Twitter town hall

  • Baltimore named 9th most tech-savvy city in U.S.

  • These 8 companies bid to redesign and host the City of Baltimore’s website

  • Hack for Change redux: where are the 10 civic-hacking projects now?

  • Government efficiency is ‘the future’ for Baltimore’s open data: Heather Hudson [VIDEO]

  • City of Baltimore looks to hire vendor to plan 3 hackathons for 2014

  • HopHacks: 25 teams formed at first Johns Hopkins student-run hackathon

  • HopHacks: first student-run hackathon at Johns Hopkins this weekend

  • Majority of Baltimore city’s 2013 robberies happen downtown [MAP]

  • Paul Smith: EveryBlock cofounder, Fed Hill resident on Public Good Software

  • Visualize all victim-based crime in Baltimore from 2010 [MAP]

  • BaltimoreCode.org: digital version of City Charter officially launches [VIDEO]

  • Use this Foursquare list of Federal Hill bars, assembled with OpenBaltimore data

  • With data, Baltimore city should fix problems before they even occur: Heather Hudson [Q&A]

  • BmoreMapped.com visualizes your neighbor’s property taxes

  • Use this Foursquare list of Canton bars, assembled with OpenBaltimore data

  • Hack for Change: 10 projects from Baltimore’s National Day of Civic Hacking event [VIDEO]

  • This is the new Google Maps, spotted by local GIS dev Elliott Plack

  • Baltimore and Philly join forces for National Day of Civic Hacking

  • SpotCrime crime-mapping startup surpasses 1M unique website visitors

  • Data.Maryland.gov: first statewide open data portal launches

  • Shea Frederick: open data lets you understand a city’s problems [VIDEO]

  • Vital Signs 11: use this data map from Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance

  • Reinvent Transit: 7 projects to improve Baltimore city’s mass transit systems

  • OpenBaltimore transportation datasets updated for Reinvent Transit hackathon

  • Hack the Parks civic apps contest to change Baltimore’s green spaces [VIDEO]

  • Carol Ott: Q&A with Baltimore Slumlord Watch blogger

  • CitiStat names Chad Kenney new director, returns to posting reports online

  • Amy Dusto chronicles city’s tech scene in 2010, 2011 for Johns Hopkins thesis

  • BmoreTech highlights data-viz projects from SpotCrime, Sickweather, Shea Frederick

  • City CIO Chris Tonjes speaks at TechBreakfast about 911, 311, other city IT initiatives

  • City CIO Chris Tonjes talks about open data, digital divide initiatives at GBTC’s unWIREd

  • Baltimore’s 311 data now displayed on Daily Brief map from Code for America’s 311 Labs

  • Vacant housing data set not accurate says Baltimore Slumlord Watch blogger

  • Chris Tonjes: new city CIO on leading with “a startup mentality” [Q&A]

  • There are 15,928 vacant buildings in Baltimore city [MAP]