wboykinm / hoodsproj

Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Boundaries

hoods

Is a project for crowdsourcing the boundaries of a city's neighborhoods, as seen by the people who live there (ideally). Developed by Bostonography for that city's poorly-defined neighborhoods, it has since been applied to Burlington, VT and Denver, CO, with some interesting results.

Configuration

1. Create a MySQL database on your host server, with
   • One table that contains a reeeeeaaaaalllly long text field named "json"
   • You might also want a timestamp field for sorting things out later
2. Configure hoods.php and gethoods.php with your database details
3. Configure hoods.js with your list of neighborhood names, city centerpoint and splash screen intro text
4. Visit the site, draw a few test polygons and watch them pile up in results.html

Authors

• Andy Woodruff (Author)
• Bill Morris (Repo monkey)