Curb the Violations

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  Web App screenshot

Inspiration

Challenge - curbside violations

What it does

• Intranet website
  • Input
  • Map
  • Stats
• Postcards
  • Postcard automatically created for addresses that had violations
  • Can filter by number of violations
  • Postcard notes the date and type of violation, and has optional comments from pick-up crew
  • Handles edge cases of too many violations to fit on a card and empty violations records
  • Generates a single PDF containing all postcards from LaTeX
  • Has URL and QR code for site giving guidelines for putting out trash

How we built it

• Open source
• Microservices
• Containers

Challenges we ran into

• Excel files
• docker on Mac
• LaTeX for properly formatting card

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• simplified deployment with docker
• tangible artifact -- printed cards

What we learned

• docker + PostGIS
• printing card is expensive and wastes lots of paper

What's next for Curb the Violations

• fix hiccups
• refactoring database
• full integration
• advanced web-based dashboard

Built With

• flask
• geoserver
• latex
• leaflet.js
• pdf
• postgresql
• python