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expanded functionality in three areas: database navigation, data<br />

access, and data structure.<br />

Additional webpages were added to improve the database<br />

navigation and usefulness. These changes include a (1) search<br />

page, including a map or table of results, (2) dynamic reports<br />

summarizing the total number and size of projects that meet<br />

specific search criteria, and (3) a project detail and editing page.<br />

The search and dynamic reports features include searching by<br />

municipality, by project size and status, as well as for projects<br />

permitted under specific regulations.<br />

Phase II of the database will also allow users to extract<br />

information for the entire region of for certain specific search<br />

criteria. This feature will allow downloading data in tabular<br />

(CSV) and spatial (KML) formats.<br />

Finally, the data structure of the database has also been modified.<br />

In addition to identifying a project’s point location, the website<br />

will assign one or more affected land parcels. The website will<br />

also collect and display a larger set of project attributes than the<br />

first version, including information about developers, designers,<br />

and contractors, which may prompt more inputs from the real<br />

estate development community.<br />

3.2.4 User Model<br />

The second phase of the development database will introduce user<br />

levels allowing different types of users to participate in the<br />

project.<br />

o The public will have read-only access to the data, as well as<br />

some limited search and downloading functionality.<br />

o Registered users will be able to set a preferred municipality,<br />

download data more easily, and enter new projects or edit the<br />

attributes of existing projects. However, these contributions<br />

will be moderated.<br />

o Approved users will include municipal staff or other<br />

municipal representative (such as a citizen serving on a local<br />

board or commission) will be able to edit projects in their<br />

municipality, as well as moderate the contributions of all<br />

registered users for their town.<br />

To incentivize participation, the project team is considering<br />

integrating game-like elements and mechanics. These might<br />

include a “leaderboard” listing users who make the most<br />

contributions, “badges” to encourage users to perform certain<br />

actions such as editing several projects or providing different<br />

types of information.<br />

4. CONCLUSION<br />

Despite rapid advances in web-based technologies for creating<br />

and sharing geographic information, significant barriers remain<br />

for developing spatial information. In particular, regional planning<br />

in the United States often requires obtaining information from<br />

many independent municipalities. This project represents an<br />

innovative hybrid approach to solve this problem for one class of<br />

spatial information, development projects. MAPC continues to<br />

463<br />

develop relationships with municipal staff, which may include<br />

occasional requests to view and update municipal data and<br />

interactions which may lead to formalized sharing practices. The<br />

development database will also seek to use a crowdsourcing<br />

methodology to enable members of the general public with a<br />

particular interest in urban development to contribute and use<br />

development data. Phase I of the project demonstrates the<br />

potential for new technologies to significantly enhance the volume<br />

and accuracy of information sharing in favorable<br />

interorganizational and policy contexts.<br />

5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />

The other MAPC staff involved in the project includes Barry<br />

Fradkin and Meghna Dutta. The project is funded by the Boston<br />

Metropolitan Planning Organization and a Sustainable<br />

Communities Regional Planning Grant from the U.S. Department<br />

of Housing and Urban Development.<br />

6. REFERENCES<br />

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Organizational Geographic Data Sharing: A Conceptual<br />

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'eds.'): Sharing Geographic Information, Rutgers Center for<br />

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[2] Nedovic-Budic, Z., and Warnecke, L., "Gis Database<br />

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[8] Linders, D., "We-Government: An Anatomy of Citizen<br />

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