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BillMaps

Visually track Congress with maps. BillMaps puts Congressional bills on the map.  

OpenGovernmentDataInitiative, GovTrack.us, GoogleMaps 
Citizen Service Requests

Citizens can request service and check the status of service requests using Google Maps, Cityworks local API and ReCaptcha. Citizens can solicit a request by entering an address manually or select a location from a Google Map. 

GoogleMaps 
CityCon

CityCon allows you to find detailed information about any member of the current 110th U.S. Congress. 

SunlightLabs 
Congress Meets Second Life

Using the SunlightLabs APIs, Kiwini Oe of Clear Ink created info centers on the Second Life Capitol Hill that offer detailed information on members of the U.S. Congress. This links shows you a YouTube video of the mashup. 

SunlightLabs, SecondLife 
Congress SpaceBook

A mashup developed to emulate a social networking platform for Congress. It uses over 10 APIs and links to: news, blogs, comments, bio information, voting records, campaign finance and more. PHP source code available. 

YouTube, Yahoo, Technorati, OpenSecrets, GoogleSocialGraph, Google, FriendFeed, Flickr, Eventful, CapitolWords, BackType 
Congress Sunlight Foundation Android App

Congress is an app for Google Andriod pones that is a pocket Congressional directory. Uses the Sunlight Labs API to show you up-to-date info about members of Congress, and to pull in updates from members Twitter and YouTube accounts. 

YouTube, Yahoo, Twitter, SunlightLabs 
CPI Media Tracker

From the Well Connected project at The Center for Public Integrity, the Media Tracker is an online database that, aside from mapping broadcast towers, provides an array of data on the reach and influence of companies that control the flow of information. 

YahooMaps 
D.C. Historic Tours

DCHistoricTours.com is mashup that allows tourists to create tours of D.C. All of the data is pulled from D.C.'s government data feeds. 

Yelp, Wikipedia, GoogleMaps, Flickr 
Display of US Political Information

Comprehensive display of National, State, and Local political information 

SunlightLabs, OpenSecrets, NewYorkTimesCongress, NewYorkTimesCampaignFinance, Maplight, FollowTheMoney 
Ease of Doing Business Map

World Bank-produced Google map on doing business in 175 countries. Countries are color-coded for ease of doing business there: easy, moderate, and difficult, in green, yellow and red respectively. 

GoogleMaps 
FEC Candidate ID Lookup

Find the campaign contribution information for each US election candidate using this lookup tool based on the MAPLight API. 

Maplight 
Federal Contracts by State

Federal contract data from FedSpending.org visually presented using the Google Chart API. See where the money goes. 

GoogleChart, FedSpending 
Fedtastic

Fedtastic is a dynamic portal to government information that features a unique menu structure which facilitates visual access to the data. It is also modular and expandable. Menus are external to the program as are the modules that process the data. 

SunlightLabs, OpenSecrets, NewYorkTimesArticleSearch, GoogleMaps 
FedViewer

650+ data series from the Federal Reserve, US economic data in a navigable timeline with landmark events. 

Wikipedia 
Filibusted

First prize winner of 2009 Apps for America mashup contest. Filibusted tracks the frequency at which senators try to stall legislation through filibustering. An 'obstruction rate' is shown for each US senator. 

SunlightLabs 
FixMyCity DC

FixMyCity DC provides a tool for reporting public services issues (downed trees, potholes, etc.) to the city of Washington D.C. and received an honorable mention in the Apps for Democracy competition. 

Twilio 
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice Map

Answering the question: Where is it safe to travel in the world? This is a mashup of the UK's F&CO travel advice data, which they provide as a list on their website, and Google Maps. 

GoogleMaps 
Geo

Geo presents various information from the World Bank, including projects, data, news, and center location. 

GoogleMaps 
Get Better Diet Info: PubMed and Amazon.com Ratings

Ratings for diet research articles from PubMed and products from Amazon EC2. Relates research articles to products and reviews by extracting tags and showing stats. With OpenID support.  

Entrez, AmazonEC2 
govpulse

Finalist in the Apps for America 2 mashup contest. GovPulse.us provides access to a database of articles from the Federal Register, the journal of the federal government. use filters to decide what is important to you.  

CloudMade 
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