POIweb is a website-in-a-box model that enables you to let your users create and maintain a geographical directory of POIs (points of interest). This can be used for e-Participation enabling citizens to pinpoint complaints or praises on a local and hyperlocal level, as well as any other use case of user generated content.

These points can be discussed by the public, photographs can be added. The platform produces toplists for all categories that can be used in local politics and administration. GeoParticipation makes use of our own technology platform Maptoolkit.

Showcases:

Radfalle.de (launched May 2010):

Radfalle.de is a service developed for the German Socialdemocrats (SPD) enabling citizens to map cycle problems in public space. It uses subdomains for towns as main campaign tools (example: city of Constance), as well as data aggregation on national and regional level. It features full Facebook Connect integration, Google Streetview, Openstreetmap support and a large range of ready data such as weather, Wikipedia, pictures, live webcams and much more.

Wlanmap.com (launched May 2010):

Wlanmap is a service developed inhouse to foster collective intelligence on where to go for free Wifi cafés. All maps are fully widgetized and can be embedded on thired party websites (example), delivering high SEO value.

Features:

• Runs on domain of your choice
• Users can easily create, localize and describe new POIs (points of interest
• “Gradual engagement” – no registration or login hurdle before adding content
• Registration/login via Facebook (one click!) and/or database of your choice possible
• “Like button” in Facebook style. Can be renamed depending on context such as “dislike” and also be used on pairs such as “correct/wrong” or “works/doesn’t work”.
• Rich administration options: Edit, delete, ban users, highlight admin comments, etc.
• Automatic creation of Top10 lists for each category, based on usage on site (comments, likes, etc.)
• Automatic creation of New10 list for each catgeory
• POIs can have custom data fields (like URLs, qualities, etc.)
• No limit in number of POIsper map or in total! (Sophisticated clustering technology at work.)
• Automatic creation of pages for geographical places for SEO purposes
• All maps are embeddable on third party websites (iframe)
• POI categorization (freely definable)
• Subdomains for regional, local or hyperlocal entities possible
• Rich Maptoolkit features available: Clustering, “More”-Button with data such as pictures, webcams, weather, etc. – Own data types possible!, Google Streetview,

Roadmap:

• iPhone app: create new entry simply by uploading mobile picture
• Assign custom status to POI, such as “fixed”, “duplicate”, “won’t fix”, “rejected”, etc.
• Integration with trouble ticket systems and workflow management software. (On customer request.)
• Subscribe to areas by email (get notification on changes within postcode or region)

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