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nychealth / EH-dataportal

Source code for the Environment & Health Data Portal
https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/
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Enhance neighborhood lookup #110

Closed cgettings closed 1 year ago

cgettings commented 2 years ago

For NR you can lookup using ZIP and UHF 42 name. For AQE you can lookup using NTA name.

Options, from easier to harder:

As an example for # 3, “Kew Gardens” matches NTA “QN61” / “Kew Gardens”, but not UHF42 407 / “Southwest Queens”. Already have an idea for how to do it.

mmontesanonyc commented 2 years ago

Let's chat through your idea.

The initial implementation of the AQE used an address lookup, which turned out to be clunky and frustrating - users wanted to explore other neighborhoods, too, but it took work for them to figure out a valid address to look up. Address lookup could work in conjunction with a clickable choropleth map, I think, but not alone.

I think for the text-based ones it's easy to add additional text fields that the entry scans (which we essentially do with the name / ZIP approach for UHFs.

But not all the units nest (eg ZIPs nest into UHFs so that's easy, but don't share boundaries with NTAs) so that complicates things.

cgettings commented 2 years ago

My idea is that we add all of the options, not just 1. So users would be able to look up by ZIP and also address. I realize that might be difficult, so I'm going to edit the list to put address lookup last.

For non-nesting neighborhoods, we'd have to return multiple options. Like if Kew Gardens is part of 2 different UHFs, then we suggest both of them.

mmontesanonyc commented 2 years ago

I like that approach. Sounds a little similar to the CD/UHF tool on the nowportal. I think the interaction pattern would need some additional thought in order to be smooth and intuitive - but overall the aim of having users be able to put in almost anything and return a useful promp/geography that guides them to a relevant selection - that's a good approach.

mmontesanonyc commented 2 years ago

NB, browser geolocator is in effect on feature-take-action - basically the DOITT NYC Core Framework map function lets you enter an address and return a ton of information, including CD, ZIP, census tract, etc etc. Tho we'd need a UHF list to match ZIP -> UHF.

mmontesanonyc commented 1 year ago

I'm going to close this as inactive right now. It's in the "Data Explorer/Site Enhancements" bit in our project board and document, and I want to keep the Issues list focused on active things.