Recent Projects
- RWJF Tour
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selected the City of Garfield, NJ as a location to hold one of its tours. Garfield was selected because of its dedication to fighting childhood obesity. VERTICES created an interactive map and website so the participants in the tour could follow along and so its many resources could be continuously viewed. The event took place on Wednesday October 12, 2011.
- Safe Routes to School Community Mapping Event – IMSOCIO
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 the Franklin High School student group SOCIO (Scholars, Organizing Culturally Innovative Opportunities) went out into their community to document the conditions of sidewalks and crosswalks in Somerset, New Jersey around the Pine Grove Elementary School. The students then inputted the data they collected into an interactive map to observe the safety of common walking routes to school. This project was developed in partnership with Dr. Wansoo Im, an adjunct professor at Rutgers University and president of VERTICES, LLC, a planning/IT consulting company in New Brunswick, New Jersey, as part of a Community Mapping initiative.
- Sustainable Maryland
Sustainable Maryland Certified is an environmental initiative that promotes the protection of natural assets in Maryland by working to certify the 157 municipalities in Maryland as they move to more environmentally sustainable methods of development and revitalization.
- IMNashville
The health informatics portal was created with the goal of bringing an interactive and user friendly map to the city of Nashville in order to involve and interconnect the city’s community.
- Puget Sound
Puget Sound and IMRivers were recently featured on NPR for their interactive Mapping project.
- Mississippi River Trails
The MRT project is an interactive mapping site showing the full extent of the Mississippi River Trails along with additional trails and points
- Sustainable Jersey
The well-known statewide Sustainable Jersey programt launched a 2010 program update with new actions, functions, and point systems along with several other improvements. Check out the site to see them in full