Urban Eco Map San Francisco

I think this is an excellent application of a compelling user interface for a worthy cause:

Urban EcoMap is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Urban Development framework for Connected and Sustainable Cities. Begun in fall 2008, the pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco IBSG—the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco—and San Francisco’s Department of the Environment (SF Environment). The organizations are jointly applying an Urban Services Platform approach toward which visionary cities and the ICT industry are moving. San Francisco is the first city worldwide to launch Urban EcoMap, with the introduction taking place on Earth Day 2009 (April 22).

http://sf.urbanecomap.org/#/explore

-jeroen

Comments

[Barrett Fox]

Great visualization. Use of color and symbol pairings is good. Gradients of those colors for comparing the neighborhoods usage is good too. I'd like to see a mode where small, unlabeled a pie charts are overlaid on the map for all neighborhoods. It'd be the small-multiple thing in action and give even more effective visual comparisons.

From the viz, I gather that there's a lot more variation between waste & transportation and not that much variation between energy usage levels. So if I'm a city official I'd hazard that helping get better transportation to the neighborhoods that need it most could have some of the biggest impact here. Wonder if that's true...