A Wiki For Inspiration and Collaboration

Welcome to TOPP Ideas

The purpose of this website to capture and refine ideas for new Virtual Tools for Real World Change. The TOPP Labs team from The Open Planning Project is the main contributor to this site, but we encourage contributions from anyone.

Have an idea for that killer product, service, or feature? Create a new page or edit something that's already here. Also, please consider making use of the discussion pages to add comments or suggestions and please sign each comment using the wiki signature syntax outlined on this discussion page.

Of course, there's no guarantee that TOPP will actually build everything (or anything!) proposed here, but it's a great place to gather thoughts and refine ideas.

Contents 1 Ideas: Urban Planning & Transportation 2 Ideas: Government 3 Ideas: Community Organizing, Advocacy, Activism 4 Ideas: Environment 5 Ideas: Open Source Software 6 Ideas: Other 7 Archive 8 Spreading the Word 9 Reference 10 Getting started

Ideas: Urban Planning & Transportation

• Eyes on the Street
• Did It - a tool that helps a bike activist draw on the work of the LSN community to improve their neighborhood
• Freehand map annotation
• Tools for Collaborative Bike-Ped Planning
• Safe Routes to Schools
• On-demand mobile volunteering for bike/ped advocacy organizations
• Neighborhood Bug Tracker
• Place Audit
• Areas of Interest
• Peer-to-Peer Bike Share
• Decision-support system
• DIYCity's idea list
• Do something awesome with GTFS data
• Ideas from LSN
• Bike Rack Map
• Real Time Bus Tracker
• Real Time Traffic Flow
• RideTheCity iPhone App
• Draw Better Streets App
• Walking Schools
• New York Public Transit Data

Ideas: Government

• Data
• Open Government in a Box
• Open Government bug tracker
• Voting guide
• Government/citizen reverse CRM
• Government wiki
• Who is my government?
• Where is my government?
• Government aggregator
• Elected official and candidate survey site
• Open311
• Data.gov for Cities
• OpenMuni
• Open FOIA

Ideas: Community Organizing, Advocacy, Activism

• Movement-In-A-Box - a package of tools that enables issue-based groups to develop social movements
• Volunteer support
• Farm out Blockparty
• WordPress profiles, blog-in-a-box
• ActionPress

Ideas: Environment

• Green Venue Network

Ideas: Open Source Software

• Geo-mobile Issue Tracker
• Wiki web service
• Collaborative Annotation
• Firefox SCM plugin
• Clone-Edit-Deploy App Engine apps
• Web Platform
• Data-Mining Web Logs
• Document approval widget
• Pixelating city maps
• Proxy posts in WordPress

Ideas: Other

• Mobile Ad-Hoc Network for Slums
• Peer-education site
• Pro-bono coordination
• Reputation badges
• User-contributed task outlines
• Software for healthcare
• Software for education
• Payroll Software
• OpenSatisfaction - issue suggestion / rating / tracking similar to GetSatisfaction or UserVoice
• Photos of this place over time
• Summer of Code 2009
• Voting for organizational decision making
• How do I dispose of this?
• NYC Summer Fun

Archive

• Make Openplans.org Awesome

Spreading the Word

• SXSW 2009 Panel Proposals

Reference

• Tech Tools for Advocacy

Getting started

• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
• Allowed Formatting
• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list