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.