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“Phind It For Me” Live in Philly

Really excited to launch a new OpenGov project in Philadelphia – Phind It For Me.

The service is built on PHLAPI and the point data sets it houses. As such, one could understand why I’d be interested in enhancing the data sets currently in PHLAPI.

I’m really excited about this project – source code available on GitHub – and would love to see if there is an interest in launching in other cities with CouchDB-based geospatial data repositories, like Baltimore.

It’s built on the awesome new SMSified platform from Voxeo (disclaimer, I work there) and uses a Node.js module I built for working with the SMSified API.

As always, dear readers, any comments or feedback is welcomed.

Do head on over to the project website and check it out!

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About Me

I am the former Chief Data Officer for the City of Philadelphia. I also served as Director of Government Relations at Code for America, and as Director of the State of Delaware’s Government Information Center. For about six years, I served in the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), and helped pioneer their work with state and local governments. I also led platform evangelism efforts for TTS’ cloud platform, which supports over 30 critical federal agency systems.

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