AWESOME!!!

and tell them how poor of a job they're all doing

Sounds great

Cool...

yea. And a app that can discuss COOP rules and regulations. Power to the peeps!

How would you approach authentication? This would be a valuable service if the people who are contributing are in fact those who live in the represented areas.

I've started working on some of the mechanics for this at http://geoserver.democracymap.org and there are a number of the same kind of ideas here as well:

Related ideas:
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3319-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-informs-reminds-residents-about-their-political-representatives-and-provides-an-easy-way-to-contact-them-their-offices
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3357-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-lists-all-elected-officials-and-their-role-based-on-my-current-location-and-the-ability-to-email-their-office-directly-from-the-app-thi
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3884-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-provides-a-digitized-version-of-the-nyc-green-book-so-i-have-a-21st-century-rolodex-of-everyone-i-need-to-contact-in-city-government
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3881-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-tells-me-what-council-district-community-board-police-precinct-etc-that-i-m-in-provides-relevant-timely-information-about-each
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3670-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-finds-the-political-rep-related-to-any-given-place-location-helps-me-communicate-with-them-form-citizen-groups-and-discuss-rate-reps
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3550-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-allows-you-to-search-for-the-city-official-you-want-to-contact-basically-an-electronic-green-book
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3481-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-allows-me-to-vote-on-issues-before-the-city-council-city-planning-commisison-borough-boards-and-community-boards
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http://ideas.nycbigapps.com/submissions/3294-i-want-an-nyc-app-that-allows-kids-to-voice-their-opinion-with-the-city-on-political-issues-and-local-matters

Also check out:

http://dev.citygroups.org
http://speakupny.org