http://www.eccesoft.com/idol iDOL is an iPhone app for navigating Department of Labor inspection data. Currently, iDOL displays inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and by the Wage and Hours Division. With iDOL, users can view inspections by state or by industry (according to NAICS 07 categories), or search by business name, viewing the results on a map. Establishments that have had violations are identified with red pins, and those that have not are identified with green pins. For more information about an establishment, one can select the pin as is normally done in the iPhone Maps application, to display details of the inspection, including the name and address of the business, the date(s) of inspection, type and number of violation, and the amount of fines assessed. Information from the detail view can be shared via email. iDOL uses the following datasets:
- OSHA inspection data- WHD- census.gov NAICS codes One of the unique things done for iDOL was to geocode the 40,000+ inspection data records to enable location-based searching (thanks Yahoo!). We plan to continue to pull new data as it updates (daily for the OSHA data, monthly for the WHD data) and geocode it, to provide "live" updates to the data within the app. Longer term, we'd recommend that location data (latitude and longitude) be available via the API at api.dol.gov. iDOL has been submitted to Apple for approval. Before then, a pre-release copy can be obtained by following the directions on http://www.eccesoft.com/idol . We will be monitoring these requests very actively to ensure that users have a chance to try the application, especially for judging.
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