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Browsable map of all applications (PA-121) #136

Closed oajirabot closed 1 year ago

oajirabot commented 10 years ago

Issue details imported from Jira:

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Assignee Unassigned
Reporter Matthew Landauer
Created 2010-04-05 08:22:06
Updated 2010-07-08 16:30:38

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Henare Degan - 2010-04-28 12:21:04

This feature was requested here: http://planningalerts.uservoice.com/forums/49635-general/suggestions/621907-make-development-applications-visible-on-a-nice-bi

Please update the UserVoice ticket when we've made progress on this issue.

Andrew Harvey - 2010-07-08 16:30:38

You can see the GeoRSS feed for all applications in Google Maps,
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwww.planningalerts.org.au%2Fapplications.rss

equivalentideas commented 8 years ago

Most people don't know the names of all the streets near by, so it's hard to understand where an application is just with it's distance from you and the address.

In user testing last year, I saw that people the location of the application is a BIG factory in whether or not the application is interesting to the person. They rely heavily on the street map and overhead map to understand the location.

I wanted to see a map of the applications near our current residence last week so I hacked something together quickly. It is indeed an interesting way to understand the relevance of applications to you, and an interesting way to see patterns.

This issue seems to be about a map for all the applications in PlanningAlerts, for use in some kind of analysis I assume. A small start on this would be a map of applications on the search results page. An even smaller start would be a link on that page to view applications on a map:

screen shot 2016-04-19 at 1 11 02 pm

We can then see if people use that link and if it impacts the number of people who subscribe for alerts pretty easily.

I'm going to polish up my hack into a basic first pass on that idea.

bruce-van commented 8 years ago

The idea of being able to look at volume of new dwellings or new building area being developed on a heatmap or similar could also help people understand the changes afoot in their area.

equivalentideas commented 8 years ago

Thanks @bruce-van :)

help people understand the changes afoot in their area.

How would this help them?

Have you seen any examples of similar maps that we could look at as a reference?

bruce-van commented 8 years ago

Here's an example of a map I made by manually copying and pasting info from council's website DA tracker. It shows thousands of new dwellings in a rural area which has been re-zoned under the growth areas state policy. If you lived in the area, you could see the intensity of the changes afoot and decide whether or not to relocate or even sell to one of these developers depending on your preference for rural living. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uleI5k-l71KQzHBgnBJCWgWGGFY

henare commented 7 years ago

We just had another request for a nice easy map :world_map: The person used to just pop an RSS feed into Google Maps but of course you can't do that any more :cry:

I'm going to polish up my hack into a basic first pass on that idea.

@equivalentideas did this happen?

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mlandauer commented 3 years ago

Lots of people have asked for this over the years. It does seem like a good idea but I am worried that some of the core usefulness could get a bit lost in the "addictive" scrolly fun of browsing around an interactive map.

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