My name is Bill and I'm a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst by day. I had the idea that we could scrape commercial real estate websites/APIs to try to identify vacant locations that could be used for large field hospitals.
In my head, I imagine lots of abandoned big box stores that could be obtained cheaply if we could just identify and map the locations. Ideally we would pull lat/longs somehow for the sites for geocoding, along with the physical address for reference along with whatever real estate data we can find (square footage for sure) .
I created the #mapping room if anyone wants to discuss this further. I just had the idea about 30 minutes ago and it seems like a good use of a few folks.
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My name is Bill and I'm a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst by day. I had the idea that we could scrape commercial real estate websites/APIs to try to identify vacant locations that could be used for large field hospitals.
In my head, I imagine lots of abandoned big box stores that could be obtained cheaply if we could just identify and map the locations. Ideally we would pull lat/longs somehow for the sites for geocoding, along with the physical address for reference along with whatever real estate data we can find (square footage for sure) .
I created the #mapping room if anyone wants to discuss this further. I just had the idea about 30 minutes ago and it seems like a good use of a few folks.
Thank you! Bill Conroy