For the last half of 2010 I helped to create and was a member of the City of North Vancouver's Civic Engagement Task Force, charged with improving civic engagement and, ultimately, voter turnout in the City. We met every few weeks and produced a lengthy report. One of its many recommendations was that the City should produce a simple map on the website showing all the proposed development projects that were working their way through the system.
In early April the City staff presented council with a report that summarized the costs and other implications of the recommendations in our report. While I was pleased to see that staff and council supported nearly all of our suggestions, I was surprised to see that the cost of providing this web map was listed at
$40,000, particularly when the raw data necessary for creating it is already
available on the City's website.
So I thought I would put one together myself. You can see it at
http://map.jjensen.ca.
I've set it to update twice per day, so it will always be up-to-date. Those (few?) of you who follow these things may find it interesting.
