Wait Times

We made this at the VIP Hackathon

People

• Thomas Levine, tlevine on GitHub
• Derek Dohler @dpdohler https://github.com/ddohler
• Sam Edwards @HandstandSam
• Justin Grimes @justgrimes

The thing

Simple mobile app which collects wait times of voters at polling places and feeds data into a realtime to centralized database(s). Built during VIP Hackathon #viphack http://votinginfoproject.org/

We made a web API for saving and retrieving wait time data. Applications can use this to add wait time recording. The API is written in web.py, and it stores data in a CouchDB.

Read more here.

Demo

We made a mobile website that lets you record and look up wait times using the wait time API.