Inspiration
Cities are full of energy; sometimes, this energy can be negative among residents, local groups, and governments. We want to make civic engagement simple, visual, and collaborative, as simple as adding a pin to a map, where everyone has a chance to improve their communities.
What it does
Open Street allows users to share their issues, ideas, and community events with a pin on a map. They can also be informed about relevant government policy works, such as city council meetings, presentations, reports, and action items, with Nemotron AI analysis. It also has a dashboard for Cities to make sense of all the issues and ideas that residents present, and identify things like sentiment and hot topics from descriptions.
How we built it
We used Next.js, TypeScript, Mapbox GL API, and Nemotron.
Challenges we ran into
- Finding focus on what is the most important use cases relating to community engagement
- Handling how to effectively and efficiently use AI for the policy summaries and issue analysis
- Determining what to show exactly on the map to manage the density of pinpoints and usability
- Managing all the user-created data.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- A clean user-friendly map interface
What we learned
- Tools for civic engagement need to have strong visual and interactive elements
- Mapbox GL is a very powerful gis mapping tool, but things like dynamic popups, marker clustering, and different other visualization methods.
What's next for Open Street
- Thinking about the functionality that can complement issue and idea reporting, such as a Nextdoor-type social platform.
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