This tool is meant for everybody to use it. However, you're looking at the source code now! This page is for geeks.
See it in action at (from west to east):
- http://vancouver.openfile.ca/openroad
- http://calgary.openfile.ca/openroad
- http://toronto.openfile.ca/openroad
- http://ottawa.openfile.ca/openroad
- http://montreal.openfile.ca/openroad
- http://halifax.openfile.ca/openroad
Here's how it works: users select a path, and we show the accidents that occurred along that path.
Want to run your own? You'll need a few things. UNIX is assumed in these instructions, though you can probably manage all this on Windows.
The hardest part is acquiring data. In most of our cities, we filed access to information requests, then yada yada yada, and now we have .csv files. The README file in the data directory explains what's in the CSV files.
It's just a website. Run coffee -o frontend/web -c frontend/src/app.coffee to compile app.js. Everything else is a flat file.
Run a web server, with its document root set at the frontend/web directory.
We host on Amazon Web Services.
- To upload the latest code:
aws s3 sync frontend/web/ s3://openroad.adamhooper.com/ - To reset servers:
cd tf && terraform apply
Everything in this directory is public-domain, except files that mention otherwise.
Want another license? Ask [email protected] and you shall receive.