openplans/shareabouts

Shareabouts is a mapping application for crowdsourced info gathering.

shareabouts's Issues

character limits on text fields

Some users take advantage of "description" fields to copy-paste tons of text. Being able to specify a character limit via the config.yml would be really helpful for the person reviewing map submissions later.

Watch areas

To make Shareabouts more useful for local organizing, users should be able to define watch areas. When a new location is added in her watch area, the user gets an email.

"support" count in JSON doesn't match the number of supports displayed on the website

1A. Suggested Divvy place ID "136196" has 68 supports in the JSON.
1B. http://shareaboutsapi2.herokuapp.com/api/v2/divvy/datasets/divvy/places/136196/support

2A. On the website it's listed as having 50 supports, but with 20 comments.
2B. http://suggest.divvybikes.com/place/136196

Write some getting started docs for non-developer users

e.g. point to Aaron Fraint's blog post, copy steps from email with Linn on the dev list, etc.

Use a different zoom for places reached directly

Currently, we use the map's initial zoom if you arrive at a place via a URL, but this is likely not the right zoom level -- when you load a specific place, we should zoom right in on it. Place load zoom should be configurable to support this.

Logic and multipage surveys

Originally suggested by Aaron Fraint --

It would be great if there were some way to embed logic into the Survey, making it dynamic. For example, if a "Yes" response to one prompt could then cause a set of related questions to appear.

Embed audio clips into places

Shortcodes or some other easy way to add sound clips to places.

E.g. from Soundcloud, you enter a soundcloud ID into a field and we generate full embedded html for the player.

Make hosting a Shareabouts site trivially easy.

Point submitted, form still open for new submission

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s154/sh/2e490334-d5b4-47e9-8a8b-7a2d1d2a741c/c8580787bfa27bf165f13b16556b033c

I filled out the form
Pressed Share this report
Blast message appeared
Blast message went away
Point appeared under the new point marker (so my point was submitted)
Form is still open with all the details, I would presumably click Share again and create a duplicate point.

Add a userId based on sessions

Originally suggested by Georgia Bullen --

It'd be helpful to have a way to track that places came from one user (even if they didn't enter a user name or if you are doing anonymous data collection), so something like a session id or a userId would be helpful!

New lines in submissions aren't shown

e.g. http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/51087

Correct submitted location

Originally suggested by Naama Lissar --

Currently, only admins can edit submitted locations - but sometimes people add a point in the wrong place and cannot correct their mistake.

Address lookup so you can go to a particular location on the map

Enter an address and the pin gets dropped in the correct location for you.

Select dropdown not displayed properly for comments

Adding a select dropdown to the survey form config shows up with all select item options as "Option option".

e.g.

    - prompt: _(Select demo)
      type: select
      options:
        - label: _(1)
          value: 1
        - label: _(2)
          value: 2

Renders as:

Mitigate redundancies

A lot of people will probably try to suggest a point that is a near duplicate of another point. For example, four people want a Divvy bike-share station at the 35th Orange Line CTA station.

Could Shareabouts say, "Hey, why don't you support this station instead?"

Thumbs up or down on comments

Maybe comments with most thumbs up comment moving to the top..

confirmation when you submit a place/comment

Originally suggested by Aaron Fraint --

Right now, when you submit a place or comment, there is no indication that your action is being processed. As a result, as user might think something's not working, and click the button multiple times, which will cause multiple points to be dropped on the map. Same issue with commenting.

Is there some way to have a spinning circle (or something similar) display after the first time the submit button is clicked? Also, disable any further clicks of the button while the first click is being processed?

Multiple users per dataset on the API

So users can assist in managing datasets across multiple projects.

Activity infinite scroll page count gets reset after activity poll

Activity infinite scroll page count gets reset after activity poll. For example, when I scroll to the bottom of the activity ticker, an ajax request will fire for page 2. If I scroll to the bottom again, page 3. Etc.

However, after the app polls for new activity, when I scroll to the bottom of the ticker, it fires off an ajax request for page 2 again (because it now thinks its on page 1).

Perhaps we should add a route that gets a page of activity with id newer than X.

Default local_settings url needs upgrade to api v2

Should be api/v2 https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/src/project/local_settings.py.template#L13

Needs a new API key too.

Support for XLSForm

or other form building tools -- http://opendatakit.org/use/xlsform/

Lightweight read-only client

Make it easy to embed a read-only view of a Shareabouts map into other sites, with links that take you to the full site.

Facebook/Twitter Authorization

Allow users to sign in via Facebook/Twitter to keep track of their (and their friends') activity.

GeoJSON Layers Documentation

The config docs currently point to this example for how additional GeoJSON layers should be formatted. However, using this syntax consistently throws a parse error in django.

I've had better luck with the array syntax given with the argo docs. Can you update the shareabouts docs accordingly?

Ability for the admin user to hide or delete multiple points

Right now, you have to edit each individual point by unclicking the "visible" checkbox.

Documentation of place types is out of date

https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/CONFIG.md#place-types

Require logged in user in order to add points to the map

Via Anthony Aisenberg:

I'm wondering if there is a way to introduce a sign-in function with Shareabouts v2? While Shareabouts v1 had the social media sign-in i'm also interested in integrating a non-social media sign-in.

Expanded "I Support This" functionality

Posted by Aaron Fraint Tue, Nov 13, 2012 --

I'm not sure if this is already possible, so please forgive me if this is already an available function within Shareabouts.
Before I explain the functionality I'd like to see, let me first describe the scenario:
I'm creating a Crash map, and in config.yml, I changed the word "Support" to "Witness". This way, someone can click to say, "I witnessed this". The idea is to be able to connect the victim of the crash to any witnesses, which could help the victim in his/her legal testimony or insurance/police reporting.

Back to the functionality -
I'd like to force someone who wants to say "I Witnessed This" to give their email address. Once they click "I witnessed this", an email box will appear, and their "Witnessing" of the event will only be recorded if they provide a valid email address. I'd like to do this to ensure that people clicking "I witnessed this" are willing to be contacted by the victim, and leave a valid email for doing so.

Is this something that could be useful for other implementations of Shareabouts? Or is this something that I should try to hack on my end, as it's specific to my project?

Configurable social share text

e.g. to be able to customize the twitter/facebook share from the config file.

Cluster nearby locations

Submit places via text messaging

It would be cool if we could submit a place via text messaging and have it show up on my Shareabouts map.

New places generate email with place content

This might be useful for advocacy type projects or when immediate notification of new places is required

Use readAsArrayBuffer for image uploads

Use readAsArrayBuffer instead of readAsBinaryString for image uploads, as otherwise reasonable versions of IE do not support readAsBinaryString.

Specific verbs for different location types

e.g. (added a location, identified an issue, shared a story).

help_text in config.yml is not documented

But is very helpful!

Store the zoom level for submissions (for accuracy in analytics tools & and for viewing places w/ context)

Originally suggested by @andycochran:

It would be nice to store the accuracy at which points are submitted. Some users might zoom in very close and position a point with extreme accuracy (exactly where a pothole is). Others users might zoom out and drop a point in a very general location (my neighborhood). When viewing a place, you could see it in the context of the zoom level at which it was submitted. This could also be valuable information for analytics tools.

Leader board of most engaged users

Show a top ten list of engaged users.

URLs in place text or submissions should auto-link

E.g. http://d33.pbnyc.org/place/86966

A forum space for general discussion

Users to either post broad project questions or discussion topics.

SSL for more secure sharing of private data

We are currently pushing data up to the Shareabouts API 'in the clear'. SSL would be nice, to make everything even more private. It would be hard but not impossible to maliciously sniff info as it goes up.

"optional: false" doesn't make form items required

Docs are wrong too.

HTTPS support - Use locally hosted JS libraries

Some PaaS providers (e.g. Openshift) are forcing HTTPS connections. This causes the leaflet and google js libraries to fail to load. Perhaps these libraries should be included in the repo?

Draw lines as well as points on the map

fading crosshairs are confusing users

"just a note that this issue, lack of emphatic visibility of the crosshair, was something we heard several times toward the end of the campaign as people were submitting their ideas. seems to be something experienced by 50+ year olds which makes sense as older vision looses contrast and detail."

Template system that allows you to export locations as print-friendly form letters

From Steven Vance:

I want to have people submit a narrative of something that happened to them and then insert that narrative into a print-friendly design that is a form letter to their city council representative (this would require that Shareabouts geocode their city council district).

Useful to use {{ mustache }} in pages

qgis plugin for Shareabouts data

See and edit your shareabouts API data from qgis.

Automatically assign neighborhood names to new locations as they are added

Users can choose neighborhood or district files to use.

Make a note about the basic auth screen in the setup documentation

This needs to find its way into the Shareabouts setup or troubleshooting docs somewhere:

"If, when saving or supporting a place or submitting a reply, you see a screen like this:

then you probably have you dataset key set incorrectly in your settings."

I get that screen almost every time I set up a new map, and it always takes me a second to remember what's going on.

Download contact details of all map participants

Name, email, zip, some info about their participation.