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Stumble Safely

2008 November 12th
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App URL: http://www.outsideindc.com/stumblesafely

Stumble Safely helps you find the best bars and a safe path to stumble home on.You can see some of our favorite spots on these maps like The Raven, Solly’s, and Local 16. It doesn’t matter when or where you start drinking for Stumble Safely to help you. You can see on these maps the crime data based on day time, evening or night to check out what’s most relevant for your party schedule. And since drinking is all about bringing friends together, we are listening for key terms like Adams Morgan, Busboys and Poets, and others that show where the party is on Twitter and posting the messages here.

Stumble Safely uses data from DC Crime Data, DC Road Polygons, DC Liquor Licenses, DC Water, DC Parks, and DC Metro Stations. Not only is this about open data, but Stumble Safely is built entirely on open source software (Drupal/Mapnik).

App by: Development Seed

App category: Agency

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“Stumble Safely”
Abhishek
January 20th, 2009

Hi Guys,

Amazing job.Luv the feel of the app. Kudos to the developers. Do you guys realize the potential of this app and even the GUI in other markets? Awesome !
All the Best to you Guys in future.

-Abhi


roadkit
March 5th, 2009

This looks great - and I really like the idea of using this sort of data in this way.

That said…

Unless you are intimitely familiar with the city, and I mean REALLY familiar, it’s less than useful. There are metro stops but they aren’t labeled. I mean, where am I?

No street names, etc. There needs to be some sort of context to map because it’s just a pretty picture with some dots on it.

Maybe if the pop-ups had associated addresses?

Anyway keep up the GREAT work!


Creative Class » Blog Archive » Open City Challenges - The Counter Reaction - Creative Class
July 21st, 2009

[...] reaction to open data initiatives. The article focuses on how the data used by one application, Stumble Safely “helps you find the best bars and a safe path to stumble home on” by mashing together [...]


Open Cities – the Counter Reaction | eaves.ca
July 23rd, 2009

[...] reaction to open data initiatives. The article focuses on how the data used by one application, Stumble Safely “helps you find the best bars and a safe path to stumble home on” by mashing together DC Crime [...]


Ken
September 27th, 2009

Agree with earlier posters. Its a great picture, I love the potential, but the map is missing some key elements. stree names, scale, and most importantly - a legend. What are those yellow clouds?


Liveblogging from California Data Camp, App Contest | Spot Us - "Community Funded Reporting"
November 7th, 2009

[...] Stumble Safely - find a safe way home [...]


Local Governments Offer Data to Software Tinkerers « Enterprise Information Management
December 16th, 2009

[...] the city’s police department.  DC Bikes, which shows bike paths in the Washington area, and Stumble Safely, which shows the safest way to get home from bars at night there, were both developed using [...]


Driving Decisions with Data « The Detroit Data Guru
February 17th, 2010

[...] Our goal is to spawn useful Web sites and mobile applications — and perhaps even have people think differently about their city and its government. In Washington, D.C., they combine crime data with information on bars, sidewalks and subway stations in order to allow individuals to find the safest route home after a night out. The site is called Stumble Safely. [...]


- Data Data Everywhere « the Chief Seattle Geek blog
March 3rd, 2010

[...] and similar sites listed above. This makes fascinating applications available such as stumble safely or Cleanscores, listing the health inspection results for restaurants in San Francisco. An [...]


What does “small government” mean to you? | THE LAB
March 25th, 2010

[...] being able to do more with less.  Applications that are emerging from open data initiatives, like Stumble Safely hint at what is possible when citizens are armed with good technology and [...]


Open Data: An Example of the Long Tail of Public Policy at Work | eaves.ca
May 21st, 2010

[...] have focused on the development of applications like Vancouver’s Vantrash, Washington DC’s Stumble Safely or Toronto’s Childcare locator. But the other use of data portals is to actually better understand [...]




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