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Friday, January 9, 2009

City For Nerdz Only

Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:09 PM

Or, as someone said in the comments to my post about the city auditor, "You would make a good auditor, Erica. U got the personalityy. (sic)"

Thank you, anonymous commenter! Now please go check out the city's revamped neighborhood mapping service (via West Seattle Blog), featuring the locations of every vaguely public facility, service provider, and attraction in 13 broadly defined Seattle neighborhoods—from farmers' markets to cemeteries to heritage trees. There are also links to active fire incidents
(a sort of visual version of the city's 911 log) and crime stats. The system's still a little buggy (entering a neighborhood more than once, you'll get vastly different maps—thanks, Microsoft!) but it's still a cool resource for city geeks (or people looking for the nearest food bank who happen to have a fast Internet connection.)

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I like the crime stats one, but it doesn't go down far enough, so you'd think we get a lot of car break-ins on my block, when in fact it's mostly to the east of where I live.

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM

Dear city map people. "Southeast" is not a neighborhood. "Southwest" is not a neighborhood. "North" is not a neighborhood. Please don't list them in a list of "Seattle neighborhoods. Call them "regions" or "districts" or something, but they are not neighborhoods.

Posted by why yes, I AM feeling pedantic today on January 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM

ECB would make a good building inspector or tax auditor too but I don't think that comment was really a compliment

Posted by high and bi on January 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM

Building Inspector and Tax Auditor are terrible options for ECB.... They require objectivity and accuracy!

Posted by bye_ecb on January 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM