phillyopen/cyclephilly.org

backend for apps and web tools

cyclephilly.org

backend for apps and web tools

Cycle Philly is a smartphone-based project to collect voluntary data on cyclists' bike route preferences.

The goal is to promote the app during a two to four week window where city or regional bicyclists would be encouraged to download and use the app to track their biking habits. The route data would be linked to a webmapping viewer that would allow users to the recorded routes and bike patterns of of all participants in realtime (users get fun instant feedback, we get great—if self-selected—data in the aggregate).

The data generated would supplement the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission's existing demographic data, and help us understand from a network perspective how bicyclists move through the city – and provide another data resource to help prioritize improvements.

The cyclephilly.org web interface is an adaptation of CycleAtlanta's route mapping interface created by Chris LeDantec.

cyclephilly.org's Issues

Rides not posting from smartphone

I ran the app on my wife's iphone and do not see the data appearing on the interactive map.

Same thing happening on the Android apps?

Jquery Chosen Selector iOS7 Browser Crash

When you go to filter rides on a browser (Safari or Chrome) in iOS7 the jquery chosen selector crashes the browser. This is only happening in iOS7. It works fine in iOS6 and on an Android device.

License

Hi,

I would like to know under which license this code is released. Thank you.

Snap to Nearest Intersection

When the public facing map draws the routes, it should snap to the nearest intersection to protect privacy.

Kat has some thoughts on this.

Rides not uploading where device ID length not 32

I found this check in post/index.php (which uploads trip data):

// validate device ID
if ( is_string( $device ) && strlen( $device ) === 32 )

I think if we were to remove the check for a 32-character device ID, that might fix both PhillyOpen/Cycle-Philly-Android#3 and #5. (The device ID of the Android phone that won't upload trips is only 30 characters).

Instructions

Instruction files need update with references to Cycle Philly instead of Cycle Atlanta.

Nicole, can you handle this?

https://github.com/PhillyOpen/cyclephilly.org/tree/master/cycleatlanta.org/instructions

New Map (rides/index.php)

Based on user testing it seems that it is a good idea to redo the public facing map (rides/index.php) so that a user can select two points on a map and the server will load rides within the radius of those two points.

The user should then be able to filter rides by type out of the results that plot within that radius.

Rides not uploading to site

My recent rides are not showing up on the interactive map. Does the server need to be updated?

Create Page to host Terms of Service

Corey will create page to host terms of service

Update Branding

Corey will rebrand the cite to conform to the DVRCP's designs.

Index_datalist.html and main_datalist.js

The latest versions of index.php, index_datalist.php, and main_datalist.js are not on the live server. Something must have happened when the server went down last week. Please push these files to the live server when you get a chance.

Suggested website field/filter display tweaks

Here are a few initial thoughts - defer to Chris/Cassidy/Charles for further refinements down the line.

1. I suggest having all rides collected to-date display by default on pageload, so that users see immediately how much other usage there's already been (and to make it easier for them to spot patterns in the data over repeated visits). If this is technically difficult, at a minimum I would suggest having a "show all rides" filter option.
2. Requested by SEPTA to play up the bike-to-transit angle and assist their planning: can you split "commute" into two trip types: "Commute (bike only)" and "Commute (bike to/from public transit)"?

Greg

Connection time out when trying to call the application for the first time

I have installed everything on OpenShift like described in your manual (as a newbie to OpenShift I can say, that it really is easy to use and to understand). But when trying to start my application for the first time the request needs many seconds and then an error "[Warning] mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2002): Connection timed out" occures. I have already tried to set the database name manually, and "rhc env list -a cycleddorf" returns the right CYCLE_DB_NAME for my case.
What is strange that no other "rhc env" variables are present - no, db login, no password etc. Is this the problem?

Responsive design on rides/index.php

The CSS for the title bar and filter rides form on the rides/index.php needs to be tweaked to make them responsive.

rides/index.php

I updated the design of the maps but we need the "Filter Rides" form. We need to update the main.js file so that the Filter Rides form pulls data from the server.

The goal is:

1. On page load, load all of the data on the server from a specific time period. E.g. all the data from the last day's ride

2. By updating the main.js file filter the data by only two categories: 1) Rider Type and 2) Ride Purpose.