steelburgher / groundtruth

GroundTruth: an earthquake awareness app

GroundTruth

an app letting you know if there are earthquakes or dangerous weather near you, and what you can do about it

##Based on user’s lat/long:

• what earthquakes are closest?

• http://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/

• http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/

• any dangerous weather bulletins?

• http://forecast.io/

• http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/

• http://www.wunderground.com/?MR=1

##Users can contribute crowd-source data on shelters / supplies nearby

• https://parse.com/products/core

Break up project into parts?

• design
• functions that do the queries to apies

Project Components

• Page design
• Front-end jQuery event handling
• Getting bootstrap to work
• Polling API for weather information
• Polling API for user location
• Push notifications?

What the design should accomplish:

• Where they are
• Display useful stuff nearby
• Peripheral weather / earthquake data
• Static but situationally dependent box that loads other stuff if there's no information to field; educational content for disaster preparedness tips on a randomized

Monday's Plan

• Mel - get user's location and earthquake data
• Ethan - get us a pretty map + weather data :)
• Rachel - work on SPA design and bootstrap