There are numerous sources of civic information which it is possible to write scrapers and parsers for.

In order to coordinate this work at a prototyping stage, there needs to be a common database which all these parsers can upload their information, and from which various tools and mashups can interrogate.

This intermediate stage is necessary to get quick results and overcome the current lack of high quality feeds from all the different sources of data.

Has similarities with everyblock.com.