Belciti

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  Belciti planner

Inspiration

Belfast’s future is shaped by decisions around housing, transport, roads, public services, and major infrastructure. However, civilians often only see these plans once they are already approved, under construction, or causing disruption.

What it does

In Belfast, you can place down simulated buildings, roads, public transport, using past data from 2016 to 2026 (planning statistics, census, public transport, bike stations, air quality, electricity grid features, total population by year, layers for underground stations, economy status). We use the past 10 years of data to predict the next 10 years for the type of building you place down, seeing whether it is a great addition for the future or a waste of infrastructure

How we built it

docker containerises it. then we use mapbox to have a 2d area of Belfast ONLY

Challenges we ran into

Finding all the data was scattered everywhere in different sources, taking us a few hours to find the proper data related to this project. Another problem was normalising the data in one format that can be used seamlessly.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Completed this and was able to get through all the bugs in the end. We even did the YouTube demo within the last 15 minutes and submitted it on time.

What we learned

We learnt how to work well with sanitising large amounts of data. sanitising data sets would be so high that we needed to use Git LFS as the maximum push limit was 100MB Git branching was the best and not all of us just working on the main branch - for 2 first years and 1 third year, we did exceptionally well at adjusting to the branching, doing pr's and making sure everything worked seamlessly and integrated well.

What's next for Belciti

give it to the government and the public so it creates transparency, recommendations and trust to show where future planning can go WITH the public knowing.

Built With

• airqualityni
• belfastcitycouncil
• data.gov.uk
• docker
• googleearthengine
• huggingface
• kaggle
• nisra
• opendatani
• openstreetmap
• overpassturbo
• postgresql
• soni
• typescript