Initial thoughts from Christian, 12 21 2016

from: Christian MilNeil [email protected]
to: Joey Brunelle [email protected]
cc: John Brooking [email protected]
date: Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:43 PM
subject: Re: [pbpac] Sidewalk Snow Violations

So, the city's FixIt app has an API where any webpage (potentially) can post or list issues.

See: http://dev.seeclickfix.com/v2/issues/reporting/

I was just able to post a "Sidewalk Snow Violation" issue from my command line using this:

curl -u "[my email]:[my seeclickfix password]" -i \
   --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "lat": 43.663130,
     "lng": -70.253181,
     "address": "27 Smith St., Portland, ME",
     "request_type_id": 8871,
     "answers": {
       "summary": "Icy sidewalk",
       "description": "Sidewalk on hillside was unshovelled after recent snowstorms and now is very icy and impassable."
     }
   }' \
   https://seeclickfix.com/api/v2/issues

Which resulted in: https://seeclickfix.com/issues/3113325

So the critical pieces here are "request_type_id", which, for our purposes, will always be 8871 (the code for a City of Portland sidewalk snow violation), the location (lat, lng, and address) and the summary/description.

Here's my thinking on how to create a basic website where we can bulk-upload sidewalk snow complaints:

• Build a simple web form that can take data for location, summary and descriptions of violations (as many as 4-5 at a time), and send them via a POST method to the SeeClickFix API
• Figure out OAuth2 authentication for other users' ids and passwords
• (less important, but nice to have) allow image uploading
• (less important, but nice to have and pretty easy to implement) on mobile devices, have an option to pull in a user's lat/lng/address from their device location instead of entering that info manually