LightYourWay

A Phone(Gap) app which shows you where in ACT you can walk safely at night.

A GovHack ACT 017 competition entry.

Disclaimer: This repository is in pre-beta!

Requirements / Installation

Step 1. Install PhoneGap (We used the CLI version, and for this you need node/npm). Further install the PhoneGap app for iOS/Android (We have only tested iOS).¹

Step 2. Then clone or download this repository.

Step 3. Create a demo app with

phonegap create sample

and copy the sample/hooks, sample/platforms and sample/plugins directories to this repository. (We didn't include these directories because they contain lots of auto-downloaded stuff.)

Step 4. Then cd into this repository and run

phonegap serve

Note the url in the output.

Try the GPS location app

On the PhoneGap app enter the url from the serve command and - voila! - you should see the LightYourWay app on your phone. This app at thsi stage just shows your current position as a marker.

We tried to put on the street lights layer (data at data/ACT_Streetlights_arcgis.csv, Javcript in www/scripts/basicgps_light_layer_notworking.js), but could not get it to work.

Try the location tracker

Additionally we were working on a path tracker which moves on a fixed path.

This is in the file www/index_tracker.html and can be demoed by renaming www/index_tracker.html into www/index.html and running again phonegap serve.

Now open a browser with the url from the serve output and what the moving tracker. This part does not work yet on a phone.

Data in this repo

We perpared ACT data for our project:

1. ACT_crimestats.csv: Crime statistics in Canberra

2. ACT_Streetlights_arcgis.csv Strett lights in canberra

Footnotes

1. Links to these things later. ↩