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Street Dig Conflict Detector

nolacitydig.com ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A New Orleans screening tool that compares public infrastructure, paving, excavation, and permit records for work scheduled in the same corridor.

Why it surfaced

The detector ingests public ArcGIS records, normalizes projects and dates, then intersects linework and point locations inside corridor buffers to rank possible coordination conflicts. Its blunt slogan—“Find the dig before the pave”—makes the municipal problem immediately legible, while the site warns that every flag still needs verification with the owning agency.

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