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Posted on November 1, 2010 | Ideas We Like
How Would You Cut $591 Million From the D.C. Budget? The Washington Post's budget game allows you to save and compare your revenue and spending decisions.
Posted on September 22, 2010 | Ideas We Like
Great Lakes Echo uses a climate change animation video to show how deer mice migrated to the Great Lakes. But the warming climate forces these mice to live in an unsuitable environment.
Posted on August 24, 2010 | Ideas We Like
Metro: D.C.- area start-up, TBD.com, is pulling together specific complaints about Metro outages and issues into a map, as the transit system has been plagued with delays and safety concerns.
Posted on June 14, 2010 | Ideas We Like
On the same day the Wall Street Journal launched its new local section to compete with the New York Times, it also debuted WSJ-themed badges up for grabs by Foursquare users.
Posted on June 2, 2010 | Ideas We Like
Developers at PBS Newshour have created a free, constantly-updated widget that keep a running tally of gallons leaked into the Gulf. This widget is free for anyone to use on their website or blog.
Posted on May 21, 2010 | Ideas We Like
The Miami local news site Grand Ave News is creating a visual archive of the community with The Shutter.
Posted on May 8, 2010 | Ideas We Like
After the oil leak in the gulf, cartographers flew into action creating oil spill maps using weather balloons and kites.
Posted on May 5, 2010 | Ideas We Like
When the Seattle Times started reporting on graffiti in the region, they turned to their partners in the community to help tell the story and gave readers a chance to report trouble areas on a Google Map.
Posted on December 3, 2009 | Ideas We Like
Bump The Birds NYC Ballot Access Game where you can attempt to alight on the ballot as Hektor Heron, a comptroller candidate endorsed by the local party.
Posted on October 13, 2009 | Ideas We Like
Walkshed is a prototype web application that calculates and maps walkability for the city of Philadelphia.
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