Portal Solves Cities' Park Accessibility Mystery

Government Technology: Park planners and other public officials in thousands of cities and towns across the United States have a new tool to turn to for information related to parks access in the populations they serve.

The Trust for Public Land has turned to big data to develop a new Web tool, known as ParkServe, to offer detailed mapping and other information about more than 130,000 public parks in more than 14,000 cities and towns. The idea being to determine what share of the community’s residents are within a 10-minute walk to a park.

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