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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Reactions to web site: HUD houses and communities

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At 10:54 PM, Blogger umaysay said...

HUD mapping website provides maps by retrieving address, which is good. However, the information provided doesn’t seem to be correct. For example, this map doesn’t show the icons of school, hospital, etc. on their own locations of my community. It is not realiable.

 
At 8:34 AM, Blogger Nick said...

I agree with the accuracy and interface criticisms. "HUD map your community" seemingly does not have the database to back up what their interface proposes that you can do. For example, I also found that the service left out some key landmarks (like schools) after I turned them on. I didn't like that you have to refresh after you activate a layer. It could be a one click process instead of two (a minor point, but big in the world of web design I gather). To play devil's advocate with many of the previous comments, many of the layers they provide are extremely useful for people looking to buy property and keep it long term. Flood hazards, discharges to water, and air releases are all things that I would like to know about before I buy property, and these seemed to map out more accurately than some of the other categories. If I'm not mistaken, HUD is the department that is in charge of all the low income housing projects in big cities like Chicago. I take their general mission to be to get people off the streets and into homes so they can effectively raise families, etc. The information they make available points to that mission. This site is in a position to engage with environmental justice issues because many of their ArcIMS/ESRI powered layers are related to the EPA and other environmental health issues. Overall, I think the ideas are there, but the site will be more useful when they can "clean up" the data sets to make them more accurate.

 

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