Empower volunteers to help increase Census participation by creating an Adopt-a-Block system. Volunteers would electronically select a Census block to work on and then report back on their outreach efforts for that block.
Its a basic rails app. But I can help you stand it up as well.
It doesn't have valid shapefiles (at this time), but it does have 18,000 Census Blocks and 400+ Block Groups available via a .json API. This backend is intended to power the React frontend in this repo.
I wasn't able to create a new repo in this
ContraCostaCivic
account, so I put the backend code from today at https://github.com/OpenWalnutCreek/canvasser-backend.Its a basic rails app. But I can help you stand it up as well. It doesn't have valid shapefiles (at this time), but it does have 18,000 Census Blocks and 400+ Block Groups available via a .json API. This backend is intended to power the React frontend in this repo.
cc @silasburger