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Brownfields
•   Thousands of land parcels
    contaminated over the past few
    decades

•   Decontamination underway
    since 1970s

•   Pollutants: PAHs, Heavy
    Metals, PCBs

•   Data available on city of
    Montreal, and Ministère du
    développement durable, de
    l’Environnement et des Parcs
Data
MontrealOuvert
•   Open Data movement

•   Oct 2011 : launch of
    donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca


•   Hackathons gathering
    programmers, users and
    experts to create new
    applications, and present
    data in a more appealing
    way
Team
•   Michael Lenczner Ajah.ca, IleSansFil, original idea

•   Heri Rakotomalala MontrealTechWatch, MTLStartupTalent,
    beta version of remtl.ca

•   Jason Prince CURA Coordinator, McGill, brownfield expertise

•   Ben Harack Vision of Earth, contributor

•   Alok Mohindra monlab, looking to work in startups with a big
    vision
REMtl.ca : geolocation of brownfields
Categories:
 •   Contamination / Decontamination

 •   Year & Level of decontamination

 •   Groundwater

 •   Pollutants



Users:
 •   urban agriculture

 •   real estate

 •   academic research

 •   environment advocacy


 •   you?
Data scraping
•   Processing a big table for
    each “MRC” in QC

•   Less information than city
    of Montreal, but more
    entries

•   Python source on
    github.com/alokm/
    remtlscraper
Ushahidi
•   Open source, born from
    the 2007 Kenyan
    presidential election crisis

•   Erik Hershman

•   REMtl: Adapting scraping
    data to Ushahidi format
    (categories, dates, making
    sense of the lingo)
DEMO
What’s next?

•   Launch Feb 7th : “5 à 7” with various
    environmental groups and media

•   Objective: see interest from Montréalers, various
    directions of work possible, such as community
    gardens, fruit picking, further development of the
    back-end
remtl.ca
twitter/re_mtl
info@remtl.ca

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Remtl.ca

  • 2. Brownfields • Thousands of land parcels contaminated over the past few decades • Decontamination underway since 1970s • Pollutants: PAHs, Heavy Metals, PCBs • Data available on city of Montreal, and Ministère du développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs
  • 4. MontrealOuvert • Open Data movement • Oct 2011 : launch of donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca • Hackathons gathering programmers, users and experts to create new applications, and present data in a more appealing way
  • 5. Team • Michael Lenczner Ajah.ca, IleSansFil, original idea • Heri Rakotomalala MontrealTechWatch, MTLStartupTalent, beta version of remtl.ca • Jason Prince CURA Coordinator, McGill, brownfield expertise • Ben Harack Vision of Earth, contributor • Alok Mohindra monlab, looking to work in startups with a big vision
  • 6. REMtl.ca : geolocation of brownfields Categories: • Contamination / Decontamination • Year & Level of decontamination • Groundwater • Pollutants Users: • urban agriculture • real estate • academic research • environment advocacy • you?
  • 7. Data scraping • Processing a big table for each “MRC” in QC • Less information than city of Montreal, but more entries • Python source on github.com/alokm/ remtlscraper
  • 8. Ushahidi • Open source, born from the 2007 Kenyan presidential election crisis • Erik Hershman • REMtl: Adapting scraping data to Ushahidi format (categories, dates, making sense of the lingo)
  • 10. What’s next? • Launch Feb 7th : “5 à 7” with various environmental groups and media • Objective: see interest from Montréalers, various directions of work possible, such as community gardens, fruit picking, further development of the back-end