RHoK Boston: Hack the Hub!

Overview

Continuum, an innovation and design consultancy in Boston, redesigned the frontend for this project. We want to implement that design.

We will need help from people with experience in Django, Postgres, jQuery, CSS or HTML.

[x] Research how the existing app serves data, and how it needs to be changed to accommodate the new features.

Backend needs to allow for featured parks, so a new "featured_park" flag for the records
We need to be able to handle a nearby_parks methods or something tapping into the PostGIS features.
We should explore OAuth via Facebook: https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/oauth/

Index Page View:
Filter menus, plus footer that includes "Featured Parks", "Twitter Feed", and "Latest Park Pic" sections
Results Page View:
Collage of results, filtered
Single Park Page View:
Activity Icons
Recommended and Nearby Spaces sections
Allow User-submitted comments on parks

Sample activity filter: http://bostongreenmap.org/parks/search/?facility__activity=2 Individual park search seems to preload all parks into memory, then autocomplete locally

Wireframes / UX
Design, Icon design (e.g. Paris Open Data icon contest)
Documented data import, uploader
Frontend code (Leaflet, UTFGrid)
Backend code (currently Python/Django, implement JSON API)
Social Media crawler
Scraped photos could be curated and inserted into some API query table in the back that would call the Flickr API for those images. This could be done in an effort to allow owners of photos to remove their content from the site without having to contact us. This could be improved by removing images dynamically if they receive errors due to privacy switching...
http://calendar.boston.com/api_doc/search

Add the single park polygon map into the individual park view