Infrastructure Map

About

This project's goal is to highlight the complexity and expense needed to fix all the crumbling infrastructure. Rather than celebrate the recent Infrastructure bill as a success, Dr. Hubbard aims to drive the narrative in a more realistic direction. $500bn is not enough compared to the sheer scope of what needs to be fixed in our nation.

Members

• Dr. Stephen Hubbard
• Brian DeRocher
• Quyen Tran
• Jeff Elkner
• Matthew Gallagher
• Roy Mosby
• Grant Stafford-Renard

Anticipated Challenges

Questions for Answering

• How to moderate content?
• How to gather metadata on submitted infrastructure

Architecture

• GitHub repository: https://github.com/code4nova/infrastructure-map

Technologies

• Current proposal is
  • GeoDjango
  • PostGIS
  • DigitalOcean for hosting
  • PostgreSQL database
  • Python3.9 is used

Resources

• Code for America
  • We have some money with Code for America that can be used to be paid for DigitalOcean hosting costs

Various thoughts to organize

• Useful partners might be:
  • Bikers
  • Covered bridge enthusiasts
• Might be useful to structure like geocache community/foursquare (someone "sponsors")
• Overpass API