API Feedback

[gauravcusp]

Feedback:

• Add Google maps plugin to get the coordinates from the dropped pin
• Remove trailing 0s from some of the IDs
• Remove ObjectID
• Add address option on UI and reverse geo-code it to get the coordinates
• Update UI explanation
• Add some more geographies for LA City. See here

Please feel free to add other comments here.

@patwater @vr00n @lingyielia @xd515

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[vr00n]

• Update heading to generic "Geo CrossWalk of ....{x} - A single file that links up all the local geographies in {x}."

... or update it dynamically when you select a city "Los Angeles", "NYC"

[patwater]

I am getting:

"An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details."

Looking at: https://calm-stream-52725.herokuapp.com/results?lonSearch=&latSearch=

:(

[gauravcusp]

Probably you're using a search query with empty parameters. Please try this link below and let us know if it works.
https://calm-stream-52725.herokuapp.com/

[patwater]

Oh you're right lol. For some reason I thought the defaults were inputted.

• Also would be a nice feature improvement to be able to input an address in addition to a lat / long

What would be the way to query this API programmatically by the way?

[lingyielia]

@patwater , sorry for this confusion.

• Now you will get a notice if lon/lat input is Null.

[patwater]

Bravo! Also would be good to clarify the explanation text at the top.

"A single file that links up all the local geographies in one area."

->

Something like: "A Geo-Cross-Walk is a single file that provides a mapping between different boundaries in a given area. For example, in LA County this file provides the local city, legislative district, police precinct and other jurisdictions for a given lat / long."

[gauravcusp]

Thanks @patwater . I've added your suggestions to TO-DO list (the first comment of this thread).

[gauravcusp]

@patwater @vr00n
we've figured out a way to geocode the physical address and extract coordinates from them so that the user won't have to look for coordinates. We'll deploy the code soon.

[patwater]

Sweet please LMK when the update is available

[lingyielia]

@gauravcusp @vr00n @patwater
We've updated the UI. you can now use a human-readable address as input.

[patwater]

Wow this is really amazing! One thing that strikes me as another future improvement. Some documentation on the different jurisdictions. For instance I'm not sure what Health District 47 / Northeast means and would be great to have a link to learn more. Relevant query: https://geocrosswalk.herokuapp.com/addr-results?place=la&physaddress=90042

[patwater]

Oh and one more thing. Could you please add "Powered by ARGO" somewhere on the app and link that to ARGOlabs.org ? Also please list your names and give yourselves credit?

[patwater]

@gauravcusp I posted the blog post into the queue for the Open Knowledge Foundation: okfn/okfn.github.com#516

ARGO is their local chair for the first ever OKF US conference in Oakland in May. Could you please add "powered by ARGO" somewhere subtly on the API?

[gauravcusp]

Thanks @patwater ! We're excited about the blog 😄 We can make the changes on the UI but not sure if that can go on API as API data is fetched directly from DB.

[vr00n]

@patwater lets try and avoid piling on the same issue. If this issue is done - lets close and create new ones for distinct tasks. Thanks

[patwater]

@gauravcusp sounds good and agree about putting that in the documentation rather than the API. Please do add the ARGO logo though. Feel free to close this issue per V's comment if cleaner

[patwater]

@gauravcusp the API appears to be up though times out and says to check the logs. Who has the creds there. @gauravcusp ? @vr00n ?