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Desktop Interface: Canvassing Map #115

Open aarontitus opened 11 years ago

aarontitus commented 11 years ago

Original author: v...@aarontitus.net (January 01, 2013 22:55:12)

The primary purposes of a Canvassing Record are: 1. to identify the areas that have been canvassed. 2. Help identify areas that need additional action because they need follow-up, or because the data is old.

Displaying canvassing presents the following challenges:

  1. There may be one or two orders of magnitude more canvassing records than Work Order records.
  2. Canvassing Records should be displayed in a way that conveys geography/location, whether action is necessary, and age of data/ staleness.
  3. Conveying canvassing of an apartment complex can be difficult, since the GPS coordinates are more or less identical for every apartment.
  4. A mobile device may not always have internet connectivity (in which case they may have to enter the information later, at a different physical location) and/or GPS capabilities. Some user-prompted validation will be required if the Google Maps API and phone GPS coordinates are drastically different from one another.

I'm not 100% sure exactly how the map interface should look, but it should illustrate what roads have been canvassed, and which homes need additional attention. It would also be good if "older" canvass records are de-emphasized somehow.

I know that's a tall order, which is why I don't have a good/easy solution.

Note: #114 must be completed first.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/sandy-disaster-recovery/issues/detail?id=115

aarontitus commented 11 years ago

From v...@aarontitus.net on January 01, 2013 23:20:57 It should contain a link to the Canvassing Record Input Interface (See #116)