NYC Day Care Center Map

On 3/20 someone in BetaNYC started a project to create a map of licensed 
day care centers in New York City.  They wrote a scraper in Ruby to grab 
the data off a website and dump it into a CSV file, then someone figured 
out how to put the data right into a MongoDB database.  Creating the map 
was easy.

Ten days later they had this prototype up on the web:



http://cdb.io/1hcvW98

Can you imagine any municipal government providing this kind of service in 
10 days or less?


Best Regards,

Steve

Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"