Archive for November, 2014
State of Our City Forum – Summary
I was lucky enough to be one of 8 speakers giving an 8 minute talk at the Anchorage Federation of Community Councils “State of Our City Forum”
Here is a summary of the talk on Civic Hacking and Open Data and the links I mentioned from Code for Anchorage and myself. Some of the apps are redeployed from the very generous and awesome Code for America Come to a meet up, everyone is welcome. Every other Tuesday at The Boardroom 5:30-7:30pm: Hack Night
1.) I used the Anchorage Muni GIS information on Community Councils to feed into Click that Hood, a fun game to learn geography. I’ve added Anchorage, Fairbanks, Alaska Native Languages, and the Iditarod trail.
2.) Trail data – Code for Anchorage has been doing a lot of work on trail data. Check out this mobile browser viewer that works on a smartphone but can take a while to download the trail data. Try clicking on a trail to see info about the trail like activities and lighting. http://codeforanchorage.org/trailstranscoder-mobilebrowser/
And check out trail-hunter which is in beta: http://trail-hunter.herokuapp.com/
And the iPhone Find Yourself in Kincaid app by Mike Brook using Code for Anchorage trail data was just released in the app store. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id944507071
3.) @CutePetsANC is a twitter feed of adoptable pets:
https://twitter.com/CutePetsANC
4.) Balance is an app to text your SNAP (QUEST) EBT# to a phone number and get your balance texted back to you in 1-2 minutes.
We need people to help translate this into other languages, so contact me if you or someone you know could help.
http://splash.codeforamerica.org/balance/english/ak/
http://splash.codeforamerica.org/balance/spanish/ak/
4.) Bus data from People Mover was cleaned up and processed and put into Google Maps.
5.) A flu shot locator (in beta)
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Balance
Now you can check your balance on your SNAP (Food Stamp) EBT card by texting your 16 digit account code to 907-312-1148 for English, and 907-312-1905 in Spanish. More languages coming soon like Russian, Yu’pik and Tagalog.
Snapfresh.org is a way to find locations that accept EBT near by and they have a smartphone app. http://snapfresh.org/
You can text your address to
(415) 889-8650
Or you can try ebtnearme.org as well.
Info from Code for America
Local work by Code for Anchorage
Splash pages you can link to:
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