Sherman Cut to close Saturday for light replacement
The City of Hamilton issued the following news release today announcing a closure of the Sherman Cut Saturday from 8 a.m. until approximately 4 p.m. The access, which runs from Charlton Ave in the west to the Kenilworth Access in the east, will remain open as the Cut…
Pew's state of the news media 2012 brings good news for CHCH
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellent in Journalism released it’s annual state of the news media report this week. There is the expected and continuing decline of dead tree news. Newspaper companies are only seeing $1 for digital revenue for every $10 in print revenue lost. The…
Hamilton’s police chief says ombudsman misinforming public
Hamilton’s chief of police Glenn De Caire calls Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin’s report on the Special Investigation Unit ‘*Oversight Undermined’ *a “dramatic over simplification of complex issues” stating those who have not “read Oversight Undermined are uninformed, and those that have read it are misinformed.” The chief’s statements…
The helpful HSR operator
Saturday night, I travelled to the far north-east corner of Hamilton – Grays Rd and the QEW – for a Stag and Doe. Thanks to a helpful bus driver, I arrived early! My trip began at Dundurn and I needed to catch the 2-Barton bus downtown. Of course,…
Conducting open data communications workshop in Ottawa May 29th
I’m happy to announce that I’ll conduct a digital communications workshop for the public sector on May 29th in Ottawa as part of the Digital Communications for the Public Sector conference. The workshop will help prepare public sector communicators for the open data era. Attendees will learn about: –…
Speaking at the University of Ottawa March 30th on open data
I’ll be at the University of Ottawa’s law school on March 30, 2012 as part of the Creative Commons Salon: Open Data panel discussing what open data means to in the professional world. I will be speaking as a journalist, joining Tracey Lauriault (Carleton Geomatics and Cartographic Research…
City's bungled $10,000,000 legal case – it gets worse
More questions about the City of Hamilton’s legal department’s mishandling of a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Deutsche Bank Securities Limited, DBRS Limited and CIBC Mellon Trust Company and others. Thus far, the media has only reported on what appeared to be one dismissed lawsuit. [](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/2012/03/citys-bungled-10000000-legal-case-it-gets-worse/hamilton_city_hall/)Hamilton City Hall A…
The HSR – they'll get you there …. late.
*If HSR mismanagement could ruin my transit trip tonight, it did.*The Hamilton Street Railway is a challenging public transit system to use: buses run late, detours happen, and the HSR information services will always claim 100% on time, on route performance. It’s typical of a poorly managed transit…
City of Hamilton Ward Boundaries – SHP and KML files
Hamilton’s municipal ward boundaries are now available in an open electronic format for use. Data license I’m releasing the boundaries under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) with credit to Statistics Canada for some of the boundary data. (I used StatsCan census tracts as the framework…
Tyler Sirens – a real-time open source crime map … coming to Hamilton?
Hamilton’s police force plans to encrypt their radio communications in the near future. As part of this initiative, they may provide near real-time activity data. If they do, Hamilton could have competing police activity maps or we may get an amazing series of cooperative maps. Real-time crime map…