MapLab: Detroit, Best Mapped City?

MapLab: Detroit, Best Mapped City?

Two years ago, a group of Detroit municipal leaders took a van trip around the city. The leaders were on a mission: to better coordinate their agencies—public works, public safety, IT, and others—towards Mayor Mike Duggan’s longstanding goal of beautifying Detroit. “It used to be that one department would write a ticket for a fallen awning, but the other department wouldn’t know who was responsible for cleaning it up,” said Slusarski, a GIS analyst in Detroit’s department of innovation and technology.