Live
Wayfinding
A fast, accessible interactive map of your district — turn-by-turn routing, real-time closures, and a “Simple Guide” mode built for all ages. Live today as the Saint Paul skyway map.
Built & operated in a real downtown — Saint Paul, MN
A map shows your district exists. We fill it with people — and prove it.
Open·Civ is the civic platform we run in the Saint Paul skyway every day — wayfinding, a business directory, live events, volunteer tools, and foot-traffic sensing. We don’t hand you a website and leave. We help you run downtown, and we measure what moves.
- spskyway.com— live
- eat.— 155 diners · $16.6–23.2K impact
- social— sold out
- v/hub— 681 surveyed
- sensors— 2 deployed
Don’t take our word for it
Touch the real thing.
The Saint Paul skyway map is live in production today — a 5-mile, 47-block indoor network with 60+ connected buildings and 160+ businesses, plus an accessibility-first “Simple Guide” for all ages. Built solo, running every day.
Open spskyway.com ↗spskyway.com Live
The platform
Five services, designed to connect into one operating relationship.
Each one is a real, running tool — not a slide. Connected, they let you activate downtown and measure it, so impact compounds instead of scattering across five disconnected vendors.
In development
Insights
Foot-traffic sensing → board-ready impact reporting: the evidence that defends and grows your funding. Two sensors deployed; the cross-city product is in active development.
Live · self-serve in beta
Directory
A searchable business directory where owners claim and edit their own listing — hours, photos, events — and see their own views.
Proven
Activations
We don’t just publish a calendar — we run the events. A $5 progressive dinner moved 155 diners through five restaurants in one night; a sold-out skyway mixer with a university dean on the mic.
Method proven · productizing
V/Hub — relational organizing for the whole community
Volunteer routing, registration, surveys, and tabling that get stakeholders of every age participating — person to person, the way real organizing works. One-tap add-to-homescreen, no app store. Cheaper and far more engaging than the flyers you’re already printing. Proven by a 681-resident survey and live check-in; the multi-tenant product is being built with pilot partners.
Proof · the number your board can defend
Estimated · methodology shownOne $5 dinner moved $16,600–$23,240 back into downtown — in a single night.
The evidence an alliance hands its board, its city, and its funders — not “your district is on the map,” but proof people came, and what it was worth. A directory can’t produce this.
- 324
- Seats registered
- 155
- Unique attendees
- 511
- Check-ins · 3.3 each
- 548
- Dishes rated
How we counted: a floor of $3,050 in app-rated plates; the range assumes $25–$35 per visit at downtown prices; it excludes drinks, second orders, and walk-ins. Real receipts land inside the range.
Most district software stops at a directory. We measure what people actually do — and what it’s worth.
Why the measurement matters
The data is the instrument that unlocks the next dollar.
- 01ActivateRun real events
- 02MeasureSensors + check-ins
- 03Prove$16.6–23.2K, one night
- 04FundDefend & grow the budget
- 05GrowMore downtown, sustainably
↻ Each turn funds the nextConnected activation services, so impact compounds — proven first with the dinner above.
About
An operator, not a vendor.
Open·Civ is run by Jacob Ramos — a decade in political advocacy, marketing, and organizing, building civic software where he lives. The work isn’t drafted in a coastal office; it runs in the skyway every day, then travels.
The platform is built on open standards, so it works for any street grid — not just a skyway. The method is proven; your district is the next deployment, designed with you.
We listen, we organize, we challenge expectations, we build.
Operated locally
You talk to the person who builds and runs it — not an account manager or an offshore queue. An operator, not a vendor.
Your data, portable
Built on open standards (OpenStreetMap + OSRM). Your content and data are yours and exportable — no lock-in if we ever part ways.
Live in weeks
The platform already exists. A pilot is a short, reversible engagement with clear success criteria — not a multi-year custom build.
Privacy-first by design
Measurement is built to be anonymized and aggregated. We count activity, not individuals.
See your downtown run like this.
Book a working session, or just open the live map and click around. A pilot is short and reversible — live in weeks, scoped to a civic budget.