Development Seed: O'Reilly Radar Looks at Open Data, Drupal, and Development Seed's work on StumbleSafely.com

James Turner from O'Reilly Radar just blogged about open data, Drupal, and specifically Development Seed's work with the DC government's data on StumbleSafely.com, a mashup we did in December using DC government data to map our favorite local bars and the crimes that happen near them, based on the time of day. We now call this an employee benefit :).

In the conversation, Eric and James also talked about our current work to open up more data, especially in the international development sphere. If we do this right, the international development agencies we are working with will be able to better communicate about their work and share their project data with other programs internally and with partner organizations. Drupal and Mapnik continue to serve as great tools for this job.
Here are a couple of highlights from the interview. read more