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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G/GeoForAll and AllForGeo Musketeers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">See what other cities are doing with regard to world-class ^thinking^ on Urban Management,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.planning.org/awards/2015/">https://www.planning.org/awards/2015/</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Just one example from those,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.planning.org/awards/2015/economic/">https://www.planning.org/awards/2015/economic/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">These are beautiful demonstrations for the kind of 'visionary' thinking needed in a CitySmart app!
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<p class="MsoPlainText">We need to step down a level or two from these refined solutions and build an open CitySmart app with core capability that facilitate these kind of things to be done, things at the elemental/mechanical level.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">We need a common platform (virtual globe) with an open API for the menu system. This will allow any functionality to be added or subtracted. Then the value-added industry, academia and hot-shot hackers can do the rest. How long must
we wait? ;-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Patrick Hogan<o:p></o:p></p>
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