MeterQuest

MeterQuest provides an easy interface to search for open parking spots using a combination of open parking spot data as well as available parking spots reported by users.

This application was developed on the weekend of 3/20 - 3/22 as part of the Hack the Commute hackathon.

Challenge and Approach

Our submission was intended to reduce congestion by simplifying the process of finding parking spots.

We approached this problem in a number of ways:

• Provide a simple interface for finding parking spots
• Gamify the process of identifying available parking spots for other users
• Use open data to filter available parking spots

Team Members

Our team:

• Cesar Romero
• Deirdre Allison
• Logan Franken
• Piera Damote
• Utah Newman
• Peter Shaw
• Doug Wade

Technologies, APIs, and Datasets Utilized

We used the following technologies:

• AngularJS
• ArcGIS JavaScript API
• Bower
• CoffeeScript (server-side)
• CSS
• Jade
• JavaScript
• Koa
• LokiJS
• Twitter Bootstrap

We used the following APIs:

• SDOT ArcGIS Street Parking

Contributing

In order to build and run our app:

• Install node >= 0.11.0
• npm install
• gulp
• View on localhost:3000

Our code is licensed under the MIT License. Pull requests will be accepted to this repo, pending review and approval.

Git Etiquette

• Commits must have only one parent (rebase instead of merging)
• Write descriptive commit messages
• Don't push broken or incomplete code to master
• Use feature branches locally
• Don't rewrite history on origin