This is a civic app that aims to help visualize how Austin's park resources are distributed throughout the City of Austin.
###Status: under development
###Related News:
- Council Member Houston sees disparity in treatment of parks - May 20, 2015
- District 4 community meeting on parks - April 30, 2015
- North Austin green space becomes a priority for council - March 25, 2015
See our progress: Live Demo
See our notes on Hackpad
##Credits
- Katie Yoder - GIS Data Analysis
- Mateo Clarke - Web Development
1. npm is required
npm is Node's package manager. You can install Node at their site or with a command like brew install node if you use Homebrew.
2. gulp is required
Before you can serve the app locally, you need to install some gulp libraries with npm:
$ npm install gulp gulp-util gulp-compass gulp-connect gulp-gh-pages --save-dev
To run the local server and see the app in your browser:
$ gulp
Gulp serves the app at http://localhost:8080.
- Recieve raw data via Councilman Casar's Director of Policy. (raw .xls file)
- Refine data by adding Lat & Long from "PARK ADDRESS SERVICE" column using Geo for Google Spreadsheets. Create "Park Type" column and merge data from 5 given sheets into one table.
- Where Geo failed to find Lat/Long from Address, use Get Lat Lon web service. 14 (out of 148) Parks Locations required this manually reference after Geo failed.
- Where still uncertain with Get Lat Lon, use Google Maps by searching "PARK NAME" field.
- Export to [GeoJSON file] (https://github.com/mateoclarke/Austin_Parks_Acreage/blob/master/data/austinParksAcreageData.geojson) via Geo tool.
- Download "City of Austin Parks" GIS data from City of Austin Data Portal.(https://data.austintexas.gov/dataset/City-Of-Austin-Parks/99qw-4ixs).
- Convert Shapefile to GeoJSON using GDAL. I referenced this blog post from Ben Balter for help.
3. Add District Shapefiles from a past project
needs review