The Map Room

Wired has a story about how GIS is being used to increase voter turnout.

Now, get-out-the-vote organizers have started overlaying information from registered voter lists, attaching data such as voter history, party registration or time in the community to every physical address on a map. Downloaded to PDAs, the information can be toted door to door.

“It’s pretty amazing technology,” said James Gimpel, an associate professor of government at the University of Maryland. “You can basically call up information on a door you are about to knock on.”