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codeforamerica / adopt-a-hydrant

A web application that allows citizens to "adopt" civic infrastructure, such as fire hydrants that need to be shoveled out after it snows.
http://adopt-a-hydrant.herokuapp.com/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Automatic Reminders #54

Open jlevers opened 9 years ago

jlevers commented 9 years ago

This is a feature which I'm trying to implement but don't really have the necessary programming experience/knowledge.

A tie-in to a weather service API such as Forecast.io which is set up in such a way that it can be configured by each municipality separately to automatically remind users to shovel when there is an x percent chance that it will snow y amount at z amount of time before the predicted snowfall. This would make it so that reminders would not have to manually be sent to users by the municipality when snow was predicted.

blurredbits commented 9 years ago

Added the ForecastIO gem and was able to pull in forecast information regarding things - but there is a lot of data to parse thru and make decisions about. To get an API key - please setup an account at: ForecastIO