Urban Neighborhood Health Atlas

Suggestion for a problem/solution session.  A multi-layer urban map that helps explore and understand data about an urban center.

Summary

What's the more effective way to build and visualize a map of an urban area that captures a wide range of information about the human enterprise in that area: basic demographics, family structure, education, crime, health, disease, community safety resources, and more.  The map would utilize GIS, remote sensing, and social networking information and technologies to build a picture that could be the basis of future research, education, and community action and development.  WikiCrimes captures the spirit of this endeavor perfectly, as does the cholera map created by Dr. John Snow (as described in The Ghost Map).

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Constraints

The primary constraint is cost and resources.  Existing census-style polling techniques are simply too expensive to deploy.