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<title>LocalData — A digital toolkit for communities</title>
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<h1><a href="/">LocalData</a></h1>
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<h3 class="section-subheader">LocalData is a new digital toolkit designed to help community groups, professional planners and government agencies modernize community-led data collection of place-based information.</h3>
<h2 class="section-header">The need</h2>
<p>Across the country, community groups, planners and government agencies collect parcel-level information about communities. Typically, the process for collecting, transcribing and cleaning this data can be confusing, lengthy and disempowering. LocalData transforms this process with technology.</p>
<p>LocalData began as a 2012 Code for America project with the City of Detroit. Three Code for America fellows (Matt, Alicia and Prashant) identified a need for local data in Detroit. Though community groups were actively surveying neighborhoods and using this data — neighborhood level surveys took a long time and further stressed the under-resourced technical assistance providers that were assisting this effort. Additionally, comprehensive city-wide surveys were taken infrequently, often involving multiple partners, with months of surveying and transcription.</p>
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<h2 class="section-header">The tech</h2>
<p>LocalData continues to be an open source project. Our <a href="http://github.com/localdata/">code is on GitHub</a>. The mobile app is built on HTML5, JavaScript, and Leaflet, and the backend uses Node.js, MongoDB, and PostGIS. We're working to make the project better and more reusable, and would love your contributions and ideas.</p>
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<h2 class="section-header">The community</h2>
<p>LocalData receives guidance from the <a href="http://codeforamerica.org/incubation/">Code for America Incubator</a>, <a href="http://hattery.com/">Hattery</a>, and invaluable advisors, including <a href="https://twitter.com/timoreilly">Tim O'Reilly</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ronboug">Ron Bouganim</a>.
LocalData continues to be an open source project. Our <a href="http://github.com/localdata/">code is on GitHub</a>. The mobile app is built on HTML5, JavaScript, and Leaflet, and the backend uses Node.js, MongoDB, and PostGIS. We're working to make the project better and more reusable, and would love your contributions and ideas.</p>
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<p>Follow us on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/golocaldata">@golocaldata</a> or email <a href="mailto:info@localdata.com">info@localdata.com</a>.</p>
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<h1>LocalData</h1>
<p>Local data was created at <a href="http://codeforamerica.org/" target="_blank">Code for America</a> and is supported by <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/" target="_blank">The Knight Foundation</a>.</p>
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