Mark Gorton, who created Limewire (one of the first P2P filesharing apps) is funding projects to make urban transpo "safer, safer, faster and more sustainable" including "actual open-source software with which city planners can map transportation designs to people's needs."
Groton's TOPP (The Open Planning Project) project spawned GeoServer so that "road information can now be painstakingly imported once from proprietary systems or entered from scratch, double-checked by other users, and rolled out to anyone who needs the data."
Portland, Oregon has already used his new open-source software to plan its bus routes. Gorton is talking with SF now for using it with MUNI - they're very dissatisfied with their current propriety software.
Wired Article: Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning
Anyone read this Wired article LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning?
Mark Gorton, who created Limewire (one of the first P2P filesharing apps) is funding projects to make urban transpo "safer, safer, faster and more sustainable" including "actual open-source software with which city planners can map transportation designs to people's needs."
Groton's TOPP (The Open Planning Project) project spawned GeoServer so that "road information can now be painstakingly imported once from proprietary systems or entered from scratch, double-checked by other users, and rolled out to anyone who needs the data."
Portland, Oregon has already used his new open-source software to plan its bus routes. Gorton is talking with SF now for using it with MUNI - they're very dissatisfied with their current propriety software.
this is very interesting
a open source approach to LEED would be beneficial
interesting - I'm all for making ESRI data easily accessible and more understandable.
Thanks for the link!
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