OK, since someone already trolled about Google Maps (in a poorly reasoned way), I'll lodge my own curmudgeonly criticism: mapping is <i>rarely</i> the way to solve anything.<p>Especially in New York, and with standard Google Maps service, it's not hard to find where things are. It's hard to find that they exist -- and, if they do, whether they fit your need...and clicking around on a map is not the efficient way to do it. Nor to enumerate it.<p>Even the most famous map -- John Snow's cholera map -- was not revolutionary in itself. Snow didn't find out anything from mapping, it was just part of the documentary process and the one made famous by Tufte. But Snow himself would've concluded that the map was of little evidence, because such maps were used to <i>prove</i> the miasma theory that he was trying to <i>disprove</i>. And his map, without the data that he collected, fell into this visual trap.<p>So what is the way to do things? Use a spreadsheet. Think about the important facets about each entry. And hell, one of those could be "address", and in literally one step, you can also make a map out of it if you want.<p>And when I mean "especially in New York", I mean that geographical distance is not the most useful metric. Even when it comes to geography. I prefer proximity to what subway station, and that is a kind of metric that is obscured/obfuscated by a map
Now that it's had some time to develop analysis without my input, I wanted to explain why I posted this...<p>I've had some thoughts rattling in my head for a couple years now on building networks/tools to unify/empower small organizations, and to reduce hierarchical structures. There are multiple ways I hope to go about this, and would love to discuss it with anybody who wants to email me.<p>More or less, though, this is a very basic form of one of my ideas - or a decent starting point. I definitely agree with some of the criticism of a map-only set-up as danso mentioned, etc... I prefer the way Yelp is set up, for instance.<p>Also, I don't believe Freelancer's Union has been covered here much (if at all), and I believe that they could be a great resource to many of the people here.
I hope you haven't chose the name based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution</a>. A wonderful revolution that left Quebec in its current advanced state ;-)<p>PS: not all of it was bad.