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Boston Residents Claim Hydrants and other Crowdsourcing GIS News

Wednesday, February 1st 2012
By Adena Schutzberg

Boston's latest Code for America rollout is a map where residents can claim and name a local hydrant to shovel after snow storms.

- Boston.com

Esri's Ryan Lanclos writes about its new ArcGIS Add-in for Ushahidi.

This add-in allows you to connect to a Ushahidi instance with the API enabled, convert text between languages, and download the Ushahidi data into a geodatabase. This opens up the feed of data being captured in Ushahidi to the rich spatial and temporal analysis tools within ArcGIS allowing users to empower action and inform decision makers using a sound scientific approach.

- Ushahidi Blog

The Guardian is looking for input to update its map of the "still active" Occupy protests around the world.

- The Guardian

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