heathhenley/shipwrecks

A simple app to display shipwreck locations in the New England area.

Shipwrecks

A simple single page app to display shipwreck locations in the New England area.

Data

The wreck data in the map was pulled from various sources on the web, the Beaver Tail Lighthouse Museum has a comprehensive database of wrecks, some with locations, at their site. Please refer to their site for more detailed information about a specific wreck, and be sure to check with them regarding how the data is allowed to be reproduced.

Architecture

The app is currently a simple Django app, the backend database is an sqlite file. The front end uses Leaflet.js to render the map and plot the wrecks in the provided locations. The app is currently deployed using Heroku.

Contributing

If you have a suggestion or bug report, please create an issue: https://github.com/heathhenley/Shipwrecks/issues/new

To contribute to development:

• clone this project's repo locally
• change to the ShipWrecks directory
• (probably in a virtual environment) install the requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
• run `python manage.py runserver' to start the project locally
• make your changes and submit a PR Note: please do not submit PRs for changes to the database data

Future Plans / TODO

There is a running list of TODO ideas here: #1

shipwrecks's Issues

TODO list - ideas for improvements

Some improvement ideas:

• panel or overlay with information / link to this Github / etc
• some wrecks have no data references, can we fix that?
• add sonar data layers to map
  • FarSounder (http://static.farsounder.com/narragansett_bay_overview/)
  • NOAA Bag (https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?layers=7ca0a68d6fd8480cb83c89173ab9d814)
• display on mobile is a little small
• toggle wreck markers (default on) --> when you zoom in a lot, could be cool to be able to look at bathy without the marker in the way
• refactor template a bit - it's pretty messy
• make the pop up a little prettier (bootstrap "note" for the data notice", maybe a table or card for the the rest)
• migrate sqlite database to postgres
• use django to write api to return data in json:
  • list all
  • all within radius of lat/lon
  • all between given years
• allow 'report problem / suggest edit'
• add log in / auth
• add wreck detail view - allow commenting?