EveryBlock is the best way to follow neighborhood news and connect with your neighbors in 16 U.S. cities. Our goal is to help you make your block a better place, by giving you frequently updated neighborhood news, plus tools to have meaningful conversations with neighbors. EveryBlock is a combination of many different types of local news — from public records like crime reports, to neighbor discussions, to photos people have taken in your neighborhood

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Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities

Go to Oakland Crimespotting

Garden Registry is a new project of the San Francisco Victory Garden program which enables urban farmers in San Francisco to locate their backyard farms on a map, describe what they are growing, and, most importantly, advertise any surplus land they have available to others who would like to plant there. The map not only allows San Franciscans to peek into the backyards of their fellow farming neighbors, but also encourages shared use of private land to maximize the output of local, organic food.

Go to San Francisco Garden Registry

Electoral map is a service independent of geo-referencing and analysis of election data. It does not belong to institutional bodies or political parties.

Go to Electoral Map | Maps of the vote in Italy

Unortkataster Köln is a project of Köln 2020 which allows users to document and map what they refer to as "architectural or social deficiencies" around the German city. This could range from potholes to graffiti to sound pollution.

Go to Unortkataster

FixMyStreet for the State of Brandenburg

Go to Maerker | maerker.brandenburg.de

FixMyTransport, a project for reporting problems with public transport

Go to Brief Encounters

GroupsNearYou.com , a project to build a web service that eventually will allow other websites, such as FixMyStreet, to tell their users “Look! There’s a local email list here. Why not join it and discuss what you can do to stop those phoneboxes being smashed up?”

Go to Meet the neighbours | Groups Near You

It searches as many local authority planning websites as it can find and emails you details of applications near you. The aim of this to enable shared scrutiny of what is being built (and knocked down) in peoples communities.

Go to PlanningAlerts.com | Email alerts of planning applications near you

Barnet Pledgebank can be used to gather together people to get projects done. These can be tasks such as clearing snow and ice from pavements in the street, painting over graffiti or setting up computer classes in your area.
The website is based on the simple principle that the person making the online pledge will work to make it happen “but only if” a number of other people commit too

Go to PledgeBank