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https://www.mapbox.com/
Not exactly proect management oriented, but could be an easy bolt on to Trello or your project management tool of choice

We need something as simple a Google Maps where we can zoom in to determine where the no-fly zones are. If you don't make it simple it ain't gonna happen.

This is what I found: https://www.mapbox.com/drone/n... "This map represents areas where it is not recommended to fly drones due to regulations."

mapbox has a really useful map https://www.mapbox.com/drone/n.... FAA have a really simple description https://www.faa.gov/regulation...

It shows the exclusion zones around the airports. Defined as Class B airspace.

The rules are fairly simple. Ground or above is controlled airspace. ATC must know and must be able to know where your aircraft is. You could possibly argue that below the treeline/building line should be considered safe, but the rules are clear.

Likely the company repeatedly flew in the area north of central park which is restricted. In particular this company has been doing it for a while with both UAV and manned aircraft, and should have known better. For this type of fine, likely they had been warned too.

http://www.statista.com/statis...
http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/f...

So your 99% figure was bullshit, based on your own links.

Also the dinosaurs they weren't preventing access in the sense we were talking about. If the municipality was being blocked from offering wifi then a local company had wired up the area. No one prevents access where they can't or won't provide service.

Read the fucking article. These were areas whose needs were not being met and the dinosaurs lobbied, threatened to sue, or sued their way to prevent municipalities from offering services that would meet their needs.

http://www.statista.com/statis...
http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/f...

Also the dinosaurs they weren't preventing access in the sense we were talking about. If the municipality was being blocked from offering wifi then a local company had wired up the area. No one prevents access where they can't or won't provide service.

This shows with 4.2 million records loaded into MapBox to create contour map that stop and frisk was not spread evenly across NYC and shows clear patterns of bias: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/co...

More than 90% Australia's population is confined to a tiny fraction of the land area.
    Like Canada, where 80% of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border.

If said light map wannabe *interactively* overlays iPhone to Android to Blackberry adoption in your own neighborhood, you can still learn a thing or two:
https://www.mapbox.com/labs/tw...
Correlating iPhone and blackberry adoptions to high vs low class income areas to your expectations / preconeptions of your "poor" neighborhood and seeing if the map matches them is neat.

Looking at rent price differences graphically if you don't even live in Manhattan also provides some education and amusement http://www.housingmaps.com/
I wish there were more projects like these.

Interesting that the map shows Spain to be so solidly in the Android camp.

I wonder if iOS is doing something funny there to skew the data, Apple has abandoned the market, or if it is local preference.

https://www.mapbox.com/labs/tw...

There's stuff out there for iOS and Android that you can tweak to your own application For Android, there's osmdroid. MapBox has an SDK out there as well for iOS. There's others, but hell if I can think of em off-hand right now.

There are lots of map designs based on OSM -- take a look at http://tiles.mapbox.com/ for a few, and a tool which makes it (technically) very easy to make your own (e.g. for when you need a map, but don't want to ask Google for a license).

Or zoom into http://maps.cloudmade.com/# and click "Change Style".

Different views are useful for different purposes, and Google doesn't yet provide anything like this. For example, I often use OpenCycleMap, since the irrelevant roads (motorways etc) are shown in pastel colours, but the useful routes (cyclepaths) are highlighted. On that map, click the layer switcher (top-right corner) and choose "public transport" to see bus, tram and train routes marked -- that's not a proper planner, but it's useful to show the existence of a route. (I don't know how complete the bus route data is, try somewhere like London if your city has no buses.)

http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v1/fcc.mobility-fund-phase-1-potentially-eligible-areas-oct-2011-data/mm/legend,zoompan,tooltips,zoomwheel,zoombox,attribution,bwdetect,share.html#6.00/38.617/-109.328

http://tiles.mapbox.com/fcc/map/mobility-fund-phase-1-potentially-eligible-areas

http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v1/fcc.mobility-fund-phase-1-potentially-eligible-areas-oct-2011-data/mm/legend,zoompan,tooltips,zoomwheel,zoombox,attribution,bwdetect,share.html#4.00/35.00/-97.00

Link to the map, rather than using the tiny iframe in the article.

http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v1/fcc.mobility-fund-phase-1-potentially-eligible-areas-oct-2011-data/mm/legend,zoompan,tooltips,zoomwheel,zoombox,attribution,bwdetect,share.html#0/0/0