What Hood Is This?

Introduction

Whathood aims to settle the neighborhood border debate for all time by aggregating neighborhood borders drawn by users into heatmaps showing the "identity" of a location.

http://whathood.in

Implementation

Written with

• PHP

• Doctrine ORM

• Zend Framework 2

• LeafletJS

  • plugin heatmap.js

• PostgreSQL 9.2

  • PostGIS 2.1

To Do

• store heatmaps as geometries instead of text

• create neighborhood polygons from heatmap points using PostGIS' Concave Hull function

• load geoJson for all other possible metropolitan areas

• cleanup user experience

• Create a developer API to serve up neighborhood given an address

• Get Google, Foursquare, Yelp, and real estate sites to use published shapefiles

Credits

originally developed by Jim Smiley and Justin Crone