OKC School Finder

Geolocation-based web app for locating schools and school districts near you.

Phase 1

• Frontend
  • Single page site
  • Landing page
  • Reverse geocode address into lat lon location
  • Show school district for a given lat lon location
  • Show closest schools to a given lat lon location (restricted by school district?)
• Data/backend
  • Static JSON dataset for school districts and schools suitable for identifying school districts and schools via distance calculations
  • Tools for generating dataset(s)
• Deployment
  • Hosting of site and data (s3?)
  • Automated data update/ingest (?)

Phase 2

TBD

Technical Details

Data Upload/Translate Process

• Ongoing discussion: codeforokc#4

Client

• Create Mapbox map without dataset
• Use Turf to query for distance information
• Use Leaflet or Turf to query for polygon information at a point
• Use Leaflet to visualize schools/school districts on top of Mapbox map via dataset
• Use Mapbox Geocoding API for reverse geocoding addresses

Data

• School District Boundaries via data.okc.gov
• Schools via data.okc.gov

Contributing

If you would like to contribute code, just fork the repository and work on a new branch. You can submit a pull request to our repository and a member of Code for OKC will approve and merge it.

Copyright and license

Copyright 2014 Code for OKC. Licensed under the MIT License.