The City of Asheville has launched a services-oriented website, with key resident services front and center on the home page. The site is built with usability in mind, based on key analytics of our most visited pages and requested services. City staff worked with local vendors to build the site on the open source WordPress platform. This [...]
The City of Asheville was recently awarded the North Carolina G. Herbert Stout Award for Visionary Use of GIS in support of the City’s Mapping Racial Equity project. Asheville was recognized during the 2019 N.C. GIS Conference in Winston-Salem. City Council officials received the award during their [...]
We know it can be hard to find exactly what you are looking for on our City of Asheville current website. After several rounds of research, testing and analysis, we are now prepared to share a new beta web site — one that is much easier to use, more intuitive and built [...]
In a continuing effort to increase transparency and provide the community with access to data, the Asheville Police Department has worked in partnership with several community members to release use of force data online through the City of Asheville Open data Portal. The data will include all records on/after Jan. 1, 2018. The data [...]
In a continuing effort to increase transparency and provide the community with access to data, the Asheville Police Department has worked in partnership with several community members to release citizen complaint and 9-1-1 call data online through the City of Asheville Open Data Portal. APD Citizen Complaints: Data includes all complaints made on/after January [...]
Code for America, the State of Black Asheville and City of Asheville will collaborate in a Community Fellowship Program partnership designed to bring relevant criminal justice data to City residents, especially vulnerable populations. Asheville City Council approved funding for the partnership at its Aug. 28 meeting at a cost of $10,000, plus expenses [...]
Amazon Web Services recently recognized the City of Asheville as winner of its mid-sized cities Dream Big Award for its equity work, particularly related to using open data as a tool to help identify opportunities to contract with minority business owners. The award was part of Amazon Web Services’ 2018 City on a Cloud Winners announced [...]
From trash collection days to crime, from properties to neighborhoods, Asheville residents have been able to look up local data by address on SimpliCity since it launched in 2015. Now, with SimpliCity 2.0, residents can access even more information, including integrated topic dashboards like the City budget and capital and bond projects, with many [...]
What do you want to know, Asheville? From neighborhood information to the City budget, mine data on an updated version of the City’s searchable tool, SimpliCity. First launched in 2015, this award-winning online tool provides useful information on city development, tax values, even trash and recycling pickup schedules. What’s new with SimpliCity 2.0? Now it [...]
This 1951 aerial map shows an Asheville before interstates were built. The Asheville Through Time webpage tracks their development as well as other aspects of the city, such as deforestation. An online tool recently developed by the City of Asheville shows how the city has grown and changed in the past 66 years. The City of Asheville unveiled a [...]
Mark Saturday, March 4, 2017, on your calendars! In line with the City’s Open Data Policy, passed by City Council in October 2015, the City of Asheville is partnering with Code for Asheville to host Open Data Day 2017 as an opportunity to continue our collaboration with the community on open data. Asheville [...]
The City of Asheville today announced a data-sharing partnership with Waze (www.waze.com), a free, real-time traffic and navigation app crowd-sourced by drivers. On its free mobile phone app, Waze users help each other outsmart traffic, informing each other in real-time if there’s a wreck ahead, an upcoming construction zone or whether a road is [...]
The City of Asheville was named Municipal Innovator during this month’s North Carolina Digital Government Summit in Raleigh. The award recognizes the City’s updated open-data portal, data.ashevillenc.gov. The N.C. League of Municipalities nomination reads: “It (open-data portal) provides the public an array of useful, downloadable information, from crime locations to flood maps to demographics to a [...]
Our data is your data. Literally. The City of Asheville collects and houses a lot of data, everything from property records to zoning permits and beyond. Putting that data to use for the public good has been a driving force behind City initiatives such as the SimpliCity search engine, which won a national award, and
The City of Asheville collects and houses a lot of data, everything from property records to zoning permits and beyond. Putting that data to use for the public good has been a driving force behind City initiatives such as the SimpliCity search engine, which won a national award, and avlbudget.org, a partnership with Code [...]
Engaging with City government should be easy as 1-2-3, so the City of Asheville is always looking for ways that tech can help keep up the connection, make life easier and create community opportunity. Here are 10 ways you can use tech to connect with your city government: Pay-by-phone parking – Launched as a pilot [...]
The North Carolina Technology Association has announced that the City of Asheville’s 123 Graffiti Free Dashboard is among the finalists for the 2014 Tech Awards. The online tool is one of four finalists in the “Business Value” category under “Use of Technology,” and was selected from more than 500 nominations. It [...]