Our developer's portal is up! http://miami.open.211.adopta.agency/

Posted on Thu 02 Mar 2017 06:28:13 PM EST by Greg Bloom

Our project is ramping up! Check out the new post from @ernie: Welcome to Miami Open211

I've updated the project summary above. Key stuff:

Next steps:

• See Ohana Web Search (front-end website) issues queue.

• See Ohana API (back-end platform) issues queue

• Work on either of the above OR:

• Scope out new 'use cases' with a particular user 'persona' and 'journey.' Email bloom@openreferral.org if you'd like to try a new approach.

We are in the Code for Miami Slack Team under #open211.

Posted on Sat 04 Jun 2016 12:45:17 PM EDT by Greg Bloom

This project was pretty much started and finished in the same night (June 29, 2015). It is a really simple demo of data mining the City of Miami 311 data set. The hard part was rolling back the git commits when I accidentally tried to commit a >100 MB file (#bigDataProblems ?)

Anyways, the IPython Notebook is available to fully reproduce the analysis.

Enjoy! -gully (@gully_)[https://twitter.com/gully_]

Posted on Mon 17 Aug 2015 09:58:23 AM EDT by Michael Gully-Santiago

Here is the running code: https://github.com/herrdragon/busTrackingGps

Posted on Mon 22 Jun 2015 07:35:54 PM EDT by Miguel Herrnsdorf

We made great progress over the weekend: a demo website is up! Check it out: https://miami-ohana-web-search.herokuapp.com

A bunch of issues listed here: https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api/issues/2

@eddroid posted this update on slack:

For those of you interested in this project, here's an update.

The Open211 JSON API from 2 hackathons ago is still up and running - Code For Miami Heroku: https://miami-open-211.herokuapp.com/api/ - Code For Miami GitHub: https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api

This week I've imported more Switchboard data into the API. In particular you may notice more contact information.

I've merged a few separate repos into CfM's Ohana API repo to make things simpler: - Switchboard's original CSV data and our data mapping proposal is now available at https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api/tree/master/data/switchboard - My code that imports Switchboard's CSV data into the API database is now available at https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api/tree/master/lib/switchboard - A new rake task "rake switchboard:import" was added at https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api/blob/master/lib/tasks/switchboard.rake to trigger the import process

Dployed the Ohana Web Search app: - My Heroku: https://miami-ohana-web-search.herokuapp.com/ - Code For Miami GitHub: https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-web-search

Miami's Ohana Web Search app talks to Miami's Ohana API app to pull data and display it in a human-friendly format.

Create issues if you find bugs or want to suggest enhancements. - API issues: https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api/issues - Web Search issues: https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-web-search/issues

This issue in particular encompasses many separate issues: https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/ohana-api/issues/2

Posted on Tue 16 Jun 2015 10:44:34 AM EDT by Greg Bloom

We have successfully sent coordinates received from the GPS using GET from the GPRS to a server every 5 seconds. Now we should start building a container and a way to power up the unit for long periods.

Posted on Fri 10 Apr 2015 09:40:23 AM EDT by Miguel Herrnsdorf

Hi folks, I'm hosting a video chat with Catalyst Miami on March 26th at 3pm about the project. Others might be joining up as well.

RSVP here: https://plus.google.com/events/ci5s2r5mc59fgld6loqaliv6hhs

It would be great to be joined by someone from the Code for Miami team who is working on this project (though not a big deal).

Also, I'm hosting a general Orientation next Friday at 3p, just a general overview of the whole initiative — not for folks who are already involved, but if you know someone who should be involved and would like to learn, please share with them: https://plus.google.com/events/coqeovlhfc1l3i99ajuot40o3us

Posted on Fri 06 Mar 2015 05:38:27 PM EST by Greg Bloom

Good news: Thanks to the efforts of Chris Scott (@cyberstrike) and Ed Toro (@eddroid), plus our intrepid brigade leaders, we have deployed the Ohana API and loaded a bit of Switchboard's data into it.

Visible here: https://miami-open-211.herokuapp.com https://miami-open-211.herokuapp.com/api/organizations https://miami-open-211.herokuapp.com/api/locations

Ed's forked OhanaAPI repo with mods is here: https://github.com/eddroid/ohana-api

Raw data (not human readable, for use with pg_restore): https://github.com/eddroid/ohana-api/blob/master/data/ohana_api_production.dump

Ed says: I haven't pushed up my scraping code, but it'll go here when it's cleaned up: https://github.com/eddroid/Miami-Open-211

Steps moving forward:

1) Check Ed's first take at field-mapping with Switchboard's tech team. (underway - @greggish)

2) Post and review data-munging code (underway - @eddroid)

3) Transfer into a more official CodeForMiami Heroku account, preferably one validated with a credit card because certain features won't work without it (next step - @rebekahmonson?)

4) Customize front-end of API module (next step - @greggish can help with text))

5) (maybe for CodeAcross) Deploy front-end Ohana Web Search and modify for Miami.

6) scope possible use cases (!)

If all of the above looks good, let's modify the main Code for Miami Open211 README accordingly.

Posted on Sat 14 Feb 2015 12:37:49 PM EST by Greg Bloom

Ardunio has arrived! We've successfully connected our GPS module and received data.

Posted on Tue 20 Jan 2015 10:57:04 AM EST by Matt last

A couple of updates:

FIRST, we have been approached to make the application available on an interactive kiosk at the Miami Beach Centennial Celebration: http://miamibeach100.com. I am looking for companies that will let us rent an interactive kiosk for the duration of the event (March 22-26). Any leads would be welcome.

SECOND, a local media company may help us make the front-end of the user interface more user friendly. I will post more once I have more details.

As always the latest version of the application is here: http://digir.fiu.edu/sealevelrise/

Posted on Mon 12 Jan 2015 07:34:40 PM EST by Susan Jacobson

I have this working locally, created a Twitter account for testing and shot off a handful of tests. https://twitter.com/CutePetsMiami this Twitter account may not end up being what we use, for now it is just for testing.

The photos returned from PetHarbor are low resolution and appear pixelated. Need to see if this is an issue with PetHarbor or the pictures provided to them.

Posted on Mon 12 Jan 2015 06:03:17 PM EST by Cristina Solana

I moved all ideas for new local brigade members from the hackpad doc to the issues page on this github repo.

Posted on Mon 22 Dec 2014 01:52:52 PM EST by Ernie Hsiung

GSM board wiring to Arduino. Download Arduino-Adafruit library. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-fona-mini-gsm-gprs-cellular-phone-module/arduino-test

Posted on Mon 15 Dec 2014 07:49:51 PM EST by Miguel Herrnsdorf

Relevant to this project: the Ohana team posted a page specifically about taxonomy - this might not answer all of our questions but it's a start: https://github.com/codeforamerica/ohana-api/wiki/Taxonomy-basics

Posted on Mon 08 Dec 2014 10:55:23 AM EST by Greg Bloom

I have data! Pls email me at bloom@codeforamerica.org and I will share.

Posted on Tue 02 Dec 2014 03:21:08 PM EST by Greg Bloom

FYI, forgot to mention: I'm hosting a series of video chats this Friday (in the 11am-2p range) where we'll be discussing different aspects of the initiative. It'll be on Google hangout, RSVP here

Orientation for newbies is at 11am, we'll probably be discussing the spec around noon, and the API around 1p. This is all extra-curricular, totally optional, just if you're interested in hearing more, seeing others involved, and asking questions. Lmk if you're interested.

Posted on Mon 01 Dec 2014 10:51:06 PM EST by Greg Bloom

WE ARE WORKING ON THE USER INTERFACE OF THE APP. Please send comments to susanjacobson@gmail.com, or tag me at a Code for Miami meet up.

BETA VERSION IS HERE http://digir.fiu.edu/sealevelrise/

NEW MOCKUP IS HERE http://eyesontherise.org/appmock/location.html

USER TESTING COMMENTS HERE http://eyesontherise.org/appmock/USER%20TESTING.pdf

Posted on Mon 24 Nov 2014 08:40:40 PM EST by Susan Jacobson

Here is the API for the GIS data and other useful resources:

• http://gis.mdc.opendata.arcgis.com
• http://his.MDC.opendata.arcgis.com/data.json
• http://github.com/Esri?tab=repositories
• http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en

Posted on Mon 24 Nov 2014 08:18:50 PM EST by Cristina Solana

Unexpected meeting yesterday with Miami-dade Counties GIS department (and their vendor). They are close (about a week) from releasing an API that would provide GeoJSON for the data that Georgiy scraped. They are aiming for Monday, but no promises.

Once it is made available we will post links here to see if there is any room for improvement or if we should just start using the API to build apps. They will also be providing use with links to their developer portal and GitHub repos.

Posted on Fri 21 Nov 2014 12:12:39 PM EST by Cristina Solana

A mostly-working prototype is available here:

http://digir.fiu.edu/sealevelrise

We are now focusing on fixing up the interface. Suggestions are welcome! I am creating an interactive interface mockup in HTML5/CSS3 and could use some help. (My pull-down sub-menus are not working.)

Posted on Mon 17 Nov 2014 08:03:48 PM EST by Susan Jacobson

11/10/2014 Hackpad Notes

(Hackpad)[https://hackpad.com/Miami-Dade-GIS-API-UKCI6BZ0OAD]

Posted on Mon 10 Nov 2014 09:25:36 PM EST by Georgiy Slobodenyuk

Created Pivotal Project (Agile PM) to track Server Side implementation: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1205622

Created git repo for new server side impl. https://github.com/sabbas/bus-tracking-gps

Posted on Sun 09 Nov 2014 02:02:39 PM EST by Syed Abbas

Two simple endpoints were created to test that the devices can send & receive data. To test it use the following cURL command

curl --data "lat=10.24059&lng=-80.240586" http://smsbus.miamicode.org/routes/101/trips/10/location

This should eventually be replaced by the API being built by Jonathan & Syed

For details on the end points, see https://github.com/Code-for-Miami/mdt-bus-sms/pull/40

Posted on Sat 08 Nov 2014 03:36:02 PM EST by Adrian Cardenas

Front End design of the app is done. The back end depend on the type of connection and database we get from the City of Miami

Posted on Tue 04 Nov 2014 11:24:52 AM EST by Carlos Caceres

WEBSITE IS LIVE! Please use the issues page to list out UX issues or bugs.

Posted on Tue 04 Nov 2014 11:18:18 AM EST by Ernie Hsiung

So far we are still gathering the componentes for the project. -Arduino board (we will borrow this since a couple of people have it) -GSM shield (we bought it already) -GPS shield (already arrived) -Battery (we bought it already) -Antena (we bought it already)

We need somebody to help with the API

Posted on Thu 30 Oct 2014 08:35:50 AM EDT by Miguel Herrnsdorf

I've published the nodejs scripts I used to crawl the Miami GIS website and convert to geoJSON here:

https://github.com/youanden/miami-gis-to-geojson-crawler

Posted on Tue 14 Oct 2014 12:10:53 PM EDT by Georgiy Slobodenyuk

I've crawled the GIS website and and converted a majority of the zips to geoJSON here:

https://github.com/youanden/miami-dade-gis/tree/a7cba57e84698d08af384cc7991b6cc5c38e69e0

Posted on Tue 14 Oct 2014 12:10:08 PM EDT by Georgiy Slobodenyuk

Here is an updated doc with the content for the Open Data Website. Please feel free to make changes and comments throughout the doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzxONvPqq95obe7PuOvPNMunX3oxNfyGPs7-TVipjkU/edit

Posted on Thu 09 Oct 2014 09:18:26 AM EDT by Maggie Diaz-Vera

LATEST APP UPDATE

We have a semi-functional Web app available at:

http://digir.fiu.edu/sealevelrise

Posted on Mon 06 Oct 2014 07:00:49 PM EDT by Susan Jacobson

Github Repo for LocalWiki

https://github.com/localwiki/localwiki/

Posted on Mon 29 Sep 2014 08:04:15 PM EDT by Maggie Diaz-Vera

This is the repo to Miami Blogs:

https://github.com/nathaliamaro/BlogMIami

Posted on Mon 29 Sep 2014 07:25:15 PM EDT by Nathali Amaro

http://nathaliamaro.github.io/BlogMIami/

You can see the site in this link

Posted on Sat 20 Sep 2014 11:41:08 AM EDT by Nathali Amaro

Updating HTML and CSS for the site… Exciting changes coming!

Posted on Wed 10 Sep 2014 11:54:59 AM EDT by Hellen Larach

We are in the process of populating the site with content and will later on narrow down on the design and style.

Posted on Wed 10 Sep 2014 11:53:11 AM EDT by Ernesto del Frade

I've truncated the table & re-did the imports to make sure there were no duplicates from testing.

It still needs to be cleaned up & gone through. So if anyone needs remote access to the DB, please let me know.

Posted on Mon 08 Sep 2014 11:11:00 PM EDT by Adrian Cardenas

Was able to import the data into the database. Will need to truncate & run it again to remove duplicates from tests.

-Adrian

Posted on Mon 08 Sep 2014 08:44:12 PM EDT by Adrian Cardenas

The first implementation of our Personal Climate Risk Toolkit is here:

digir.fiu.edu/seaLevelRise/.

You can enter your address and find the high tide projections for the tide monitoring station nearest you.

Posted on Mon 08 Sep 2014 07:21:26 PM EDT by Susan Jacobson

After hacking, experimenting, testing, questioning, researching, I was finally able to get everything working.

• Solr is now updated with all laws
• Division Laws (Level 4) are now showing
• General cleanup of laws and section ids

Going forward:

1. Improve Parser by redesign
2. Add tag functionality by parsing keywords from law text
3. Harden the server
   • change passwords
   • password protect admin

Posted on Wed 03 Sep 2014 10:56:11 PM EDT by Antonio Llanos

Diane Levine created some scripts to import the text files into a MySQL database as an alternative to Socrata.

At hack night a couple of weeks ago, Daniel Garcia volunteered to run the scripts on the server & import the data.

I've followed up with Danny over email to check on his progress & have him register on here.

Posted on Wed 03 Sep 2014 10:08:57 PM EDT by Adrian Cardenas

Hi all, I've created a custom logo and redesigned the landing page using Bootstrap. I uploaded the static HTML/CSS to Github. If you like what I've done please let me know and I'll redesign the remaining areas.

Posted on Wed 03 Sep 2014 04:40:13 PM EDT by Nestor Cabrera

Layout In Progress

We are currently in the process of coding the overall layout of the app as well as creating, organizing and researching all the content needed.

More updates soon.

Posted on Wed 03 Sep 2014 11:47:48 AM EDT by Bianca Rigazzo

Initial outline of site plan is on Google Docs.

Posted on Wed 27 Aug 2014 12:50:37 AM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

I just wrote a document on how to add a project - and status updates as needed - to the projects.codeformiami.org website.

Posted on Tue 26 Aug 2014 02:11:31 PM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

Project still needs some minor tweaks and a good design.

Posted on Mon 25 Aug 2014 07:02:19 PM EDT by Miguel Herrnsdorf

New datasets have been uploaded to Google Spreadsheets from Miami-Dade County to be integrated into a second version of the visualization website:

Second revision data available here:

• Spreadsheet #1
• Spreadsheet #2
• Spreadsheet #3
• Spreadsheet #4
• Spreadsheet #5

Posted on Tue 19 Aug 2014 01:17:00 PM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

Cristina followed up with the liaison from Operation P.A.W. to see how we can help them further and do more brainstormings.

Posted on Mon 18 Aug 2014 07:44:24 PM EDT by Adrian Cardenas

This API is created off of raw data that we received from Miami Dade County.

I was able to upload the permitting data to the Code for Miami Data Portal on Socrata which should allow an API by default, AND tie the property address to a latitude/longitude (click on the map view icon). Documentation to the RESTful API is now available.

I was able to update all datasets to the data Github repo with a new commit and push to master.

Posted on Fri 15 Aug 2014 12:08:12 AM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

Hey, so the project is UP! Here's what we got.

1. Welcome screen.

2. Interactive pie charts that break down the operational/capital/total budget spending proposals.

3. Explanations of how funding is used in each endeavor (eg. public safety, transportation, etc)

Future endeavors for the project will be labeled as issues on the Github page.

Posted on Tue 12 Aug 2014 11:55:08 PM EDT by Danny Sepler

Successfully got trolley tracker website to return JSON array with the location of the vehicles. Over the next week should be able to integrate those coordinates into a map that updates at a given interval.

Posted on Tue 12 Aug 2014 05:30:17 PM EDT by Patrick Helmus

Hey! I just styled the app. Here's what it looks like now.

Here's the about page.

Posted on Mon 04 Aug 2014 09:27:24 PM EDT by Danny Sepler

I have uploaded Dec2013, Jan,Feb,Mar 2014. I have also received Apr,May,Jun 2014 as well. Uploading those tonight.

We have a parser and database loaded with this data, we just need other "locations" to make the app more interesting. Right now we have Miami Lakes, and I am looking to obtain other areas that are managed by Miami Dade Police (MDPD).

What would be great is to obtain other non-MDPD cities to create conversion programs to be able to fit the data into the schema created to match the MDPD reporting.

Posted on Mon 04 Aug 2014 10:33:26 AM EDT by Antonio Llanos

We now have a domain name - MiamiDadeCode.org - which now points to the website. Our call whether we want to name this project Miami-Dade Code or Miami-Dade Decoded. (Baltimore calls it "Decoded" but has the domain name of "code".)

Posted on Fri 01 Aug 2014 08:59:46 AM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

Adrian R. made some structural changes - we also wrote up a new Hackpad document of project ideas, if you want to code and you are looking for a different idea rather than the ones you see in the project list.

We still have to update the website to reflect this new doc.

Posted on Wed 30 Jul 2014 03:33:29 PM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

From Rebecca White (sowhitedi):

Hello Ernie, Will, Rebekah, and Antonio,

Thanks for welcoming me onto this project as a designer, and welcoming me to Miami! I'm brand new here and looking forward to working with you all.

I wanted to let you know some of my general thoughts for the design of this site. At hack night we've discussed that the current styling is very Virginia-Political and does not feel very Miami. So I'm looking at developing some color palettes and type styling that reflect the energy and vibrance of our city. I also would like for it to make some subtle references to the Wynwood neighborhood, since that is where it's being created!

One Question:

Does anyone have a suggestion of an iconic object / piece of architecture / something that really says MIAMI? For the header of the site, I would like to replace the generic State of Florida outline logo with something that's symbolic of Miami. I can do a custom illustration for this logo, just want to get some ideas from people who have been here longer than I have!

I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions you might have.

Thanks!

Posted on Tue 29 Jul 2014 05:40:58 PM EDT by Rebecca White

With help from Rebekah and Christina, we now have a GitHub for data files and links to data files that are too big for GitHub (like geodatabases):

https://github.com/susanfiu/SeaLevelRise

Posted on Tue 29 Jul 2014 07:56:50 AM EDT by Susan Jacobson

Hey folks, MAJOR update this weekend thanks to the work of Will and Antonio: http://54.88.152.46/

This is what has been done this weekend:

• Antonio imported Will's XML dumps
• I went in and stylized/customized the front page for Miami-Dade County, including a map of Miami-Dade that is not the official MDC logo. I also cleaned up some white space issues in the footer.
• I added copy to the /About page

As far as I'm aware, these are the major things that need to be addressed:

• Tying the DNS to miamidadecode.org (this is in Antonio's bucket, I think?)
• Inline definitions show a JSON error
• solr/search doesn't seem to be running at the moment

Posted on Sun 20 Jul 2014 08:43:32 PM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

Here are the latest design specs for the app:

here

Posted on Mon 14 Jul 2014 07:23:16 PM EDT by Susan Jacobson

Socrata is a company that provides social data discovery services for opening government data. They have graciously provided us with an instance of an open data portal.

We have uploaded our subset of Miami-Dade 311 Service Requests that we received from Miami-Dade County in this data portal; we still need volunteers that can transfer our subsets of Miami-Dade County Local Business Tax Data as well as Miami-Dade County permitting information. Both of these subsets are available on the Code for Miami github accounts.

Bonus points if you can also upload the data sets that were profiled on Miami's US City Open Data Census page.

Contact Rebekah on how to get access to the Socrata portals and instructions on how to upload data sets.

Posted on Mon 14 Jul 2014 12:48:52 AM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

From Kevin: "We could really use some designers and front end work on this application to display a feed of the tweets." Track down Kevin at a Monday meeting for more information.

Posted on Mon 14 Jul 2014 12:33:42 AM EDT by Ernie Hsiung

Mural Project Best Practices Guidelines Updated!

Posted on Mon 07 Jul 2014 11:41:03 PM EDT by Maggie Diaz-Vera

Use this Google Document to edit existing representatives from state to county to commissioner level.

Posted on Mon 07 Jul 2014 09:10:54 PM EDT by Danielle Ungermann

7/7/2014 - Congrats, Rebekah! For your recognition tonight. We missed you and Adrian at tonight's meeting.

5/20/2014 - We reached out to Mike regarding someone in Transit that may be more involved on the GTFS data or the smartphone app with whom we could talk directly. No contact obtained, and follow-up sent on 7/7/2014.

4/2014 - First user-testing took place and we discussed a redesign of the bus stickers. This is pending.

Posted on Mon 07 Jul 2014 07:52:20 PM EDT by Aleyda Mejia

From Antonio:

I was able to get this up on EC2, need to run the updates, and then we can point the DNS over. In looking at Municode, I noticed that there is a City of Miami code, and there is the MiamiDade County Code, which is what we will be launching. Don't know if we want to add MiamiDadeDecoded.org as the URL, instead of MiamiDecoded.org

We still need the following:

1. Reskin the site
2. Update the dictionary for Miami (it is set for Virginia terms)
3. Load the latest XML documents.

Posted on Tue 01 Jul 2014 11:38:06 AM EDT by Ernie Hsiung