Specs for the DisasterResourceTracker for the Miami Day of Civic Hacking, which is about reporting the general current availability of arbitrary resources at locations.
- Faceted search including location with map and table view
- Saved searches + notifications (e.g. when availability changes of plywood near me)
- Separate permissions for Location CRUD and AvailabilityReport CRUD
- Simplified Text DSL (over sms or even just super basic web app)
- (resource, location) -> [result]
- (resultID) -> location that iMessage can link to maps (probably just address)
- Consumable
- Replenish-able
- Broad demand and appeal mid-crisis(e.g. water/plywood is universal and people care enough to report)
- Prone to scarcity ("the first things to go")
- Generic in type (e.g. water not Dasani)
Generalizing that, universally demanded commodities seem like a good fit. Things like service and needs can be modeled but it's not ideal (e.g. a "resource" of people needing something at a location)
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name | string |
Name of the Resource Host (e.g. store name, service name, etc) |
| URL | string |
An optional external URL for more info from the Resource Host |
| Location | geo |
The lat/long cooridinates of the resource |
| ExternalID | string? |
An optional external system id for integrtation with existing systems |
| ExternalSystem | string? |
An optional name of an external system |
| ResourceType | string |
Type of resource from a finite list, e.g. water, gas, plywood, hugs |
| ResourceAvailability | float |
0-1 quantity indicating current availability, e.g. 0, 0.5, and 1 for a red/yellow/green scale or straight slider (calculated in light of AvailabilityReports) |
Note ResourceType and ResourceAvailability could be in a Resources array to support multiple resources per location without fully denormalizing
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| User | ID |
User doing Reporting |
| Timestamp | datetime |
Time of report |
| LocationID | ID |
Location of Resource |
| ResourceType | string |
Resource being reported about |
| ResourceAvailabilty | float |
New availability being reported |
| Image | string |
URL of uploaded image |
| Comments | [{message:string, user:ID}] |
Discussion about report |
- Elasticsearch (For Indexing Locations + Geo based search)
- Node
- React
- Contexture (https://www.npmjs.com/package/contexture)
- Futil (https://www.npmjs.com/package/futil-js)
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent