NOTE: THis project has been Depreciated and has been replaced by SandySearch
Entry for The Agents of Change Hackathon, 12 August 2018 in NYC
I was in Super Storm Sandy in 2012 in Connecticut, and was without power for 9 days. During the disaster, we had a very hard time discovering what services (gasoline, food, water, ice, power) were available and when and where. And if you have only a half a tank of gas you don't want to drive around looking for more, without knowing where to go.
The idea for this service is to use the power of crowdsourcing (think "Waze for Services, after a disaster"). It currently allows anyone (without a login) to search and report on services available in their area.
Verified users (pre-registered, think Red Cross, National Guard, and business owners/managers) can leave "verified" status updates, at no cost.
I think the service could be used as a branding expense to get good press and more prospective customers. The majority of the expense would be the manual verification of "verified" users, and minimal hosting of the back-end service.
So this service uses geolocation and a standard crowdsourcing format to collect information from people in the field. And share it with anyone who needs it.
Nothing fancy but it could work, much like the way Zello was used after Hurricane Harvey in Houston: https://wgntv.com/2017/08/29/civilians-and-cajun-navy-bring-their-own-boats-to-rescue-harvey-victims/
This mobile application was built with the sweet Ionic Framework (Angular.js/JavaScript/CSS/HTML5) and uses the Google FireBase service for authentication and cloud data storage.
With a Vim editor and a cmd window.
Live web app version of ESSR can be found here: https://esrr-aoc.firebaseapp.com/#/home
And the Android APK is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/sandysearch/essr-aoc/releases/tag/0.0.1
The GitHub repository for the web app is here: https://github.com/sandysearch/essr-aoc
- iOS build - just need my Mac.
- complete the backend debugging with Google Firebase (currently on a free spark plan).
- add in the real distance calculations (from stree address). There are seveal free services for this but they may be rate limited.
- add a map view (with Google Maps or OpenStreetMaps)
- add the account request function (and screen) - something like Google Forms would work well.
Please do contact me directly if you can use or add to this project.
Released under the MIT License
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