Project Plan

Idea:

1. Get Data from Irish Water website
2. Represent (geo-based/ location specific enquiry) data so it is a) meaningful to the user b) compliant with a standard format (can be reused in other countries) c) displays indivdual danger warnings d) Review trend for quality

Start with the Dublin Area

Weeek 1:

• setup github (everyone)
• Bijith: get data from irish water website by using screen scraping
• Antti/Roshan: start on the website with a map display for good/bad water
• Brian: identify people in IW, DPA and EPA to talk to
• Kat: Research into "Trinkwasser" from Code for Germany, Create Github Wiki
• John: Create a group for transparentwater@codeforireland.com, Send GitHub invitation - Done

Week 2 (Catch-up call week of 12/01/2018)

• review week 1 results
• see how data looks

Important Links

Irish Water Website:

1. https://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/

2. url: https://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/results/?act=findAddress&lat=&long=&wq-address=Phibsborough METHOD: GET -> Response:

     `HTTP/1.1 302 Found`
     `Server: Roxen`
     `Vary: *`
     `Vary: Accept-Encoding`
     `Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8`
     `Content-Encoding: gzip`
     `Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:06:01 GMT`
     `Location: https://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/results/index.xml?act=getZone&long=-697935.358646948&lat=7049722.29593245`
     `Expires: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:06:01 GMT`
     `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`
     `Accept-Ranges: bytes`
     `Connection: keep-alive`
     `Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:06:01 GMT`
   

You are able to use the Location parameter in the response header to get the zone details and the access needed for the third url

3. url: https://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/results/summary/allresults.xml?filter=1&wq-date-from=01-Jan-2017&wq-date-to=31-Dec-2017&wq-parameter= METHOD: GET

GitHub: https://github.com/codeforireland2/water_import

Slack: https://codeforireland.slack.com/