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New version of open311-android, ported from City of Bloomington version
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Show existing request at the map #63

Open kvlahromei opened 7 years ago

kvlahromei commented 7 years ago

IMHO an important aspect of online service requests is to eliminate duplicates, as citizens can see existing service requests, before they enter a new one.

Unfortunately the app currently doesn't show the existing requests on the map (in general and geolocate view), which might result in unnecessary requests, if different citizens enter multiple requests to solve a single problem.

It would be pretty cool, if the map could visualize all requests and let the user explore the content.

milovanderlinden commented 7 years ago

I totally agree and this is on our wishlist indeed!

The biggest reason for not implementing this yet is that at the City of Eindhoven, the app will be used primarily for civil disturbance. With regards to privacy, these reports are not allowed to be shown on a public map, so our first priority is cooking a recipe for hiding them. Sending a deviceid to our back end is the first step as you may have noticed in the source code. With the deviceid, users should be able to see their own reports. The requests.json should then be anonimized and coordinates randomized +/-500m for these particular requests.