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Remtl.ca
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- 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
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- 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 : geolocationof 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)
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- 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
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