[GRASS-user] examples of Web GIS interaction between citizens and governments?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 19:04 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 18:20:38 PM +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> 
> > Dear Marco,
> > 
> > there is something related: EcoTopos [1] (unfortunately for
> > non-Greeks) in Greek :-)
> > EcoTopos is an open access, community maintained database which
> > collects, organizes and links dynamically to googlemaps information
> > concerning environmental issues for the Greek territory with the aim
> > to disseminate them in the public. (...check the link [2] to the
> > map)
> 
> Sorry, Nikos, but I'm not sure Ecotopos is related to what I asked,
> please help me to understand it. I had specifically asked for example
> of end users who can
> 
> > > use the [official GIS website made by a Public Administration] to
> > > directly _communicate_ geographic-related information to the
> > > Public Administration which created that website.
> 
> that is, I'm not (mainly) looking for _community_ ran websites which a
> Public Administration may utterly ignore. I am looking for cases where
> is the Public Administration itself which **starts** the process, that
> is which creates and maintains the GIS website which the citizens can
> use.
> 
> Things like Ecotopos are interesting all the same, of course,
> thanks. I'll probably mention it anyway in the presentation. But I've
> been asked (for that event I mentioned in the original post) to first
> present cases managed by local governments.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 		Marco

Marco,

you are right. I was fast to provide the link.

I would be more than interested to learn that a Public Institution
(funded by the state) runs such a service. In Greece we suffer from the
opposite. Public Admnistrations (and excuse me if I am rough) are not
doing what they are supposed to do. There are always, of course,
examples of people or small teams who do their best being public
servants.

The interesting thing with EcoTopos (or even better with
http://tilaphos.googlepages.com/toposMap.html?datablog=tilaphos-fires,tilaphos-reforest,eco-topos&categories=%CE%92%CE%9F%CE%99%CE%A9%CE%A4%CE%99%CE%91%CE%A3&alt=json-in-script&callback=showTopos&max-results=200 ) would be to see it becoming part of a Public Service.

Please excuse me for the time-crunching.

Kind regards, Nikos