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Observations on digital media by the faculty and staff of the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.

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Posts for Databases and Maps

Interactive Map on Dangerous Intersections

By Paul Grabowicz, April 24, 2008

The Bay Area Newspaper Group has an interactive map on dangerous intersections for which users are generating the content, and there's quite a lot of it.

Here's the map.

And here's their story about it and how people are contributing to it.

Palm Beach Post - Data and Discussions on Neighborhood Level

By Paul Grabowicz, April 2, 2008

The Palm Beach Post has a Backyard Post section that provides databases, map mashups, news and online discussions organized down to the neighborhood level.

A great combination of hyper-local with a variety of information sources (thanks to Technolo-j for the tip on this)