EveryBlock launched

Posted by Eric Florenzano on January 23, 2008, at 11:01 p.m.:

Very, very cool! It must have been hard to find all of the content for that site!

Posted by Matt on January 23, 2008, at 11:21 p.m.:

Congrats! It's beautiful.

Posted by Derek Willis on January 23, 2008, at 11:25 p.m.:

Congratulations. Off to a great start!

Posted by Patrick Beeson on January 24, 2008, at 12:34 a.m.:

Very cool Adrian!

I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented in other cities. In the meantime, just another reason to move to Chicago!

Posted by Empty on January 24, 2008, at 12:49 a.m.:

Congratulations. I love the stuff you're doing in the hyperlocal space. Keep it up. The site is absolutely elegant.

Posted by Brian Drum on January 24, 2008, at 1:03 a.m.:

Very impressive. Congrats to you and the team!

Posted by Andy Baio on January 24, 2008, at 1:37 a.m.:

Looks gorgeous, works brilliantly. I can't wait for Portland!

Posted by Gerd Kamp on January 24, 2008, at 8:32 a.m.:

Congrats! Great to the see the vision becoming graspable.

Good to to see openlayers and tilecache in action. Wondering if django-gis is used and if MapServer or GeoServer is generating the tiles. Which cartographic data is used? OSM?

Must have been hard to get all the data especially the geometries. What do you think of zillows recent move of open sourcing the neighbourhood shapefiles?

Posted by Pete Crosier on January 24, 2008, at 2:43 p.m.:

Congratulations to the entire team, it's great to see the next step in your shake-up of the way we think about news.

Posted by Jeff Judge on January 24, 2008, at 6:44 p.m.:

Congratulations! This is going to be a really useful tool for citizens and people looking to move around. I'm excited to see it grow :)

Posted by raman on January 24, 2008, at 9:21 p.m.:

Congratulations! Nice work.

Posted by Chris Amico on January 25, 2008, at 7:07 a.m.:

Nicely done. Can't wait to see it expand into other cities.

Posted by Rex on January 27, 2008, at 11:37 a.m.:

Congrats! You guys have applied the best of yourselves to EveryBolock.And i can't help to say "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."Best of luck

Posted by Chris J on January 29, 2008, at 2:35 a.m.:

Great job with the site. I think the big news sites will take notice of this and drool. As a resident of the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, I've been a fan of your chicagocrime.org site for quite a while. I love how you integrated that data into everyblock.

Posted by Mark on February 6, 2008, at 4:56 a.m.:

Is it up? I can't access it....

Posted by Adrian on February 6, 2008, at 5:18 a.m.:

Mark: Our DNS provider (GoDaddy) is having some problems, which has made the site's domain unavailable intermittently for some ISPs. We've switched providers to solve the problem, so the site should be back online soon, depending on your ISP.