THING 17

Connecting to Community: 511 Minnesota is the app that I tried and I think this would be very helpful now that it is construction season. You can also add layers to tell you about traffic, and cameras. This will be very valuable when we are traveling into the cities, so that we can avoid some major problems. There are always alternative routes to take, but if you don't know ahead of time, you can get stuck in delays. Professionally it would also be valuable if I was traveling for work. Going out -sponsored by the star trib. is a great one for telling you where restaurants are near you location or what type of entertainment is available. This would be extremely valuable because now we just go to the places we are familiar with and this would let us try some different venues. Professionally, you could use this to entertain visitors, etc. I also tried the star tribune app and found all of the local news which is nice to see without waiting through all types of sports/national news, etc.