AreYouSafe Atlanta, a PointAbout client, was featured today on CNN in a story titled, “Cities embrace mobile apps, ‘Gov 2.0‘”  The article states, “Are You Safe” uses a person’s GPS location and municipal crime data to tell residents of Atlanta, Georgia, about the crime history in their immediate vicinity.

These sorts of apps tend to pop up only in places where the municipal government has released its data sets in a format that can be easily crunched. That public data is the fuel that makes these applications work.”