Open andreiyurkevich opened 4 years ago
History of places visited by all users are kept in the DB.
one of the challenges of marking an area "clean" is that it risks giving users a false sense of security, which we must avoid. But agree with you completely on the value of a heatmap!
@cankisagun As for the history of places, we could use a framework like OpenDMTP(We could possibly modify a software like openGTS to suit the req). it is primarily meant for vehicular fleet management, but that works as an advantage since it would let people track positive/negative cases. It also allows geo-fencing so people moving in and out of zones can be notified.
@ainsleys - We could use visual stimuli to show that a clean area may not actually be clean. Usually heat-maps have hot and cold zones shown in a spectrum of blue and red, we could use colors that don't give a complete sense of security, like a spectrum of light orange to bright red.
@tuneerguha I feel like the applications that are interacting with our DB needs to implement openGTS as the web portal we are building depends on Google Maps for location data. Am I missing something?
@cankisagun Not really, It has support for OpenStreetMap. It may not be as accurate as google maps, but i guess its good enough.
There is a suggestion for the product roadmap. It would be useful to track the history of places visited by people who were later diagnosed on the disease and create a heat map. The system will have a "score" of places based on the number of visits by probably contagious people. The application can provide information about "clean" areas and the areas where additional caution is recommended.