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West Philadelphia Digital Database
The West Philadelphia Digital Database integrates text,
statistics, maps, and drawings at multiple scales. The "nested"
structure of the database enables the user to get an overview of
West Philadelphia as a whole, then zoom in, accessing
progressively finer grain of information, ultimately down to the
scale of a single block or a single property. The database can
run on a personal computer and was designed for use by government
agencies and grassroots organizations, for both "top-down" and
"bottom-up" planning. It makes information and analytical tools
once available only to governmental agencies and large
institutions accessible to individuals and small groups. This is
a revolutionary development which has enormous potential as a
model for other places; once a digital database is set up, it can be shared by many different users.
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