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Charity collection routing (and tracking?) #2

Open starsuit opened 5 years ago

starsuit commented 5 years ago

Name Sam Dickeson

Describe the problem you'd like to solve My dad volunteers for London Air Ambulance, and he drives a car around to various corner shops etc, anywhere where a collection tub will have change in it. He and a partner collects this change. He has to drive to multiple addresses and uses a website in advance that plots out the order of the route that he takes. I feel like a more 'live' routing app might be better. I'm also concerned that it's just him and a partner, I really don't want them to be mugged. Could we also consider tracking/issue reporting if they are delayed or there is a problem?

Who are the stakeholders? Charities, charity volunteers

What is currently being done to solve this problem? There is already a website/app that will solve the order of the stops ('travelling salesman' algorithm) I imagine amazon dpd etc have delivery driver tracking but it's not open-source