This is a project started by a few FOSS@RIT hackers in Rochester, NY for the first-ever National Day of Civic Hacking. We hope to expose publicly-available UV index data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency to create an attractive, interesting interface to this data.
The front page is a simple 3 column view that gives a quick description, provides a form for inputting your Zipcode, and links to the project source and license.
This is a screenshot of what the results look like from a desktop view. The index shown at the top is calculated by checking the time the page was visited against the hourly index. The colors are mapped to the severity levels listed on the EPA informational website.
As the page was designed using Unresponsive CSS, we get a fluid page that scales with the size of the viewport (aka we get mobile friendly pages without having to write separate code just for mobile devices.)
Hourly results for the day are colored based on UV Index severity, and include tips and advice based on EPA information, such as time until skin damage, and precautions to take based on UV Levels.
This software is released under the GNU GPL version 3 or later.
We hack on this project in a virtualenv, and you should, too!
EPAUV requires that you have the python-lxml package installed.
This is used by pygal to generate coolio SVG diagrams.
- cd <directory containing this file>
- $venv/bin/python setup.py develop
- $venv/bin/initialize_EPAUV_db development.ini
- $venv/bin/pserve development.ini
- Nate Case
- Remy DeCausemaker
- David Gay