Forum Activity for @robert-torzynski

Geographic and photo-mapping assets

Asset Mapping & Gift Inventories

Update - this site: http://grok.zgroks.com/index.html - is being developed to serve as a community-based asset map for Rochester, New York. It will be developed consistent with the methodology described in HUD's Neighborhood Networks Asset Mapping Guide. The site does and will provide the ability for anonymous users to add to the map/database. The fields, categories, and icons are still being developed but the goal is to maximize participatory input to the map and the underlying MySQL database. The map includes base layers that can be toggled that utilize Google Fusion Tables to depict Vacancy Rates and Population Density at the Block Group Level (2010 Census Redistricting Files) obtained from http://www.communitycommons.org.

Geographic and photo-mapping assets

Asset Mapping & Gift Inventories

Hi Stephanie, This is a very interesting topic to me and I have developed an interactive Google Map that can be used for participatory mapping at: http://trails.zgroks.com/index.html. It uses Google JavaScript API version 3, and some PHP along with JavaScript and stores the user-added data in a MySQL database. It is easy to add to and to flag markers for removal, and creates permalinks to itself that can posted to Twitter.

It includes a Guestbook that users can upload photos to. Presently this application has been used to collaboratively select count locations for the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project in Rochester, New York and to serve as a way point for the distribution of information. But it can also be used to crowd source information such as the location of community features or the placement of geographical markers referencing existing conditions.