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Solutions Search: Geospatial Tools for Urban Problems

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April 24, 2018 Solutions Search Data-Smart City Solutions today launched a searchable public database comprising cutting-edge examples of public sector data use. The "Solutions Search" indexes interactive maps and visualizations, spanning civic issue...

San Francisco Urban Forest Map

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Beginning in January 2016, a team of certified arborists began mapping and recording every street tree in the City. Upon completion in January 2017, the census identified the exact location, species and current condition of every tree, in addition to...

San Francisco Building Eye Fire

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San Francisco is the first city to use BuildingEye's new fire department product. On an external website, the city has put up data where a person can look up - by address, area of the city, time issued, type of report and more - building information going...

SF Park

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SF Park uses technology to match on-street parking prices with demand. "Smart meters" and sensors compile occupancy and payment data. Based on that information, a pricing algorithm recommends parking rates for various times of day that are designed to...

LA Express Park

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LA Express Park began after a pilot in the downtown area in 2012, and is designed to reduce inner-city traffic congestion with pricing that reacts to demand and mobile apps that supply real-time information about parking availability. LA Express Park has...

GoLA

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GoLA is a mobile and web app that allows users to plan their trips according to their desired mode of transport (including bike-sharing and travel companies like Lyft and Uber) and how "green" or expensive they want their trip to be. Each trip is...

Displacement Alert Map

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Providing the most fine-grained analysis of displacement risk, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) created the Displacement Alert Project Map (or Dap.Map), which assesses displacement risk building-by-building in New York City...

WaterSim

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Phoenix WaterSim was developed by Arizona State University researchers to help the Phoenix metropolitan government estimate supply and demand in order to effectively manage its limited resources. WaterSim emphasizes the role of visualization in helping to...

Housing Insights

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The Housing Insights tool assembles essential information on all subsidized affordable housing in DC and connects it to relevant outside data such as public transit, property tax assessments and neighborhood characteristics to make it easy to consider all...