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• The D.C. Taxicab Commission has set the terms of what counts as a sedan in a way that would seem to exclude most UberX cars, a resolution that has Uber up in arms. “While we’re still figuring out how to operate within this regulatory environment,” the company’s local Washington team writes on its blog, “rest assured that we do not plan to take this lying down.”
• The situation, though, has layers, and getting less attention is haggling over whether Uber should be required to hand over anonymized trip data. Such gathered information is, in some ways, the mother’s milk of the Uber business model, so it’s unsurprisingly making the case that it shouldn’t be mandated to submit it to the commission. Concludes the commission, “We disagree.”
• Yet another sticking point: what color for-hire sedans, under D.C. rules, can be. The commission argues that there’s a practical rainbow of would-be drivers to choose from, pointing out “over 110 dark colors” on the approved list. But there’s an assumption baked into that stance, and it’s that it really doesn’t matter what color a for-hire car is required to be; if it’s your business, why not just get a dark vehicle? UberX, though, is built around the idea of drivers for whom driving for pay might just be one of the many things they do.
• What has the commission so worried? Critics, of course, will argue that it’s the might of the professional ride industry. But the commission says that it’s concerned that app-driven travel will be so successful that it will crowd out traditional street hails, and “residents who do not use or cannot afford smartphones –including those in under-served areas of the city and the elderly – would be left with nothing.”
• Finally, the D.C. taxi commission, in its report, takes a step back and assesses the national scene: “[T]he regulatory landscape for on-demand transportation varies by jurisdiction and at present, is a moving target when it comes to apps. The national debate with respect to which approach will prevail is ongoing.”
• One more detail from the D.C.-Uber debate: The commission also approved the creation of a committee that will formally deal, in part, with ride sharing.
• PlanningCamp, an unconference, will take place in New York City on September 21. Go if “you see many opportunities for technology to change how we plan cities.”
• CityEngine was built for urban planners, but filmmakers are finding it a useful way to simulate cities.
• On NPR, a teen acknowledges that for her mom, owning a car might have meant freedom. But, “I get my rides through Twitter and Facebook.” What about safety? “Many teens stay within their own social circles to find rides and don’t branch out beyond friends of friends.”
• San Antonio debates whether it’s wise to pay $1800,000 to bring in Code for America, with advocates promoting the idea that the fellows are “considered cream of the crop in their field.” In the end, the council voted yes.
• As more police departments embrace “big data,” the demand goes up for the services of crime analysts.
• The mayor of Provo, Utah does customer service for the coming Google Fiber.
• The economics of Google Street View: A Florida tourism group is paying camera-luggers $27 a mile, and will get $1,000 from Google for the images at the end. “[M]ostly it is fun and probably cheaper than a gym for me,” says worker in why he’s doing it.
• Using census data to map the town of Ithaca, N.Y. finds that its “core is overwhelmingly white.”
• And here’s the open-source software you need to map the racial distribution of your own city.

Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.