Users are able to set up polls or message boards through our website. They need a screen or projector hooked up to a laptop with Internet-access in order to go live. The audience then uses their cell phone to submit their responses either via text message or mobile web.

On the simple user level people will use the site to search for products from their shopping lists, and companies they are interested in or recognize as the manufacturers of the said products. By submitting querries on certain products and companies, users will give us an indication of where research is needed, and become integrated into a community as they receive prompt feedback and see the new information incorporated into the database. On the research level we will welcome submission of new data as it comes along - news items, financial info from less accessible local sources (other than the SEC and other government sources that make financial data public), and anything else that might prove helpful. The two categories of information on the BMP site are articles of critical nature with a business element, and financial affiliation networks.

why the mashup: because we need to leverage every single technology tool out there to turn what used to be an old-school, slapshod exchange of info into a systematized, easily searchable source of information for travelers and communities  who: engaged travelers, host communities, donors and contributors. what: make a small contribution of time, skill, goods, effort on every trip; we'll help you make it happen. we all need it to happen. where: the GoSomething platform, but very much in the real world -- anywhere one goes, and not just North -> South. we all go places, we all are guests, it make sense to get deeper into the community by giving back something (and yes, that includes San Jose)why: because contributive travel is a way of giving back, of getting deeper into a visited community, of giving a sense of purpose to all travel, of showing one cares, of feeling fulfilment from caring while traveling, and implementing that back home

You'll get access to all the legislation, voting records, analytic tools, district maps, charts and graphs. You'll get to connect with other members, discuss issues, and rally for support.

We are mashing up IRS data on 1.4m charities, user reviews and ratings, wiki pages for each charity, and more. In addition, we are joining this data to merchant-funded rebate malls to generate donations through shopping, auction services and more.

As with any Google Map, all the "bubbles" will be clickable to show detailed information.

Topology Framework .NET represents a topology manipulation API capable of handling managed objects representation of topological entities based on other popular APIs, exposing it's JTS-based common topology manipulation core to them. JTS is, in fact, an API providing spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions, providing a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It implements geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL. JTS port for .NET was named NTS, and is fully conformant to Microsoft .NET 2.0 specification. NTS extends JTS with numerous coordinate transformation and other functions, while TF.NET extends NTS further, including additional IO functions and generic classes related to geometry graphs. For details regarding described technologies and their respective authors see acknowledgements below

HealthyCity.org currently offers users access to over 120 demographic and community characteric variables, from 9 different data sources. Our data and sources are described in detail at: http://www.healthycity.org/c/help/sc/indicator. For the proposed national service, some of the California-specific data sources may not be available nationally (such as data from the California Health Interview Survey or from the WIC program), but their functions may be replaced by other data sets. There are a number of health and economic data that state and federal offices use that are only available at the county level (so they cannot be displayed on our current site); offering a national view will make comparisons and disparities between counties and states accessible to users. Users will be able to:- Upload their own data sets- Overlay data points on top of demographic and other data- Map and analyze data within a radius around an address, or within a ZIP code, city, legislative districts or other jurisdictions- View core demographic and other data for the selected geography in tables and charts- View assets, such as schools, parks, fire and police stations, on an interactive map, with types of service (identified by icons)- Identify information about assets or service providers by scrolling over their icons- Cut and analyze data by over 60 demographic, health and other indicators