'Good Luck With That' : Tag Teaming Civic Data
summary
Two Ruby newbies build a working parking app in four weeks that turns messy civic maps into a mobile friendly MVP. They hit an ArcGIS server and failed KML endpoints so they fallback to KML ping overlays, cache tiles with the carrierwave gem to Amazon S3 (uploads take 14–15s so they background them) and use a Python cron job to parse shapefiles. Getting up-to-date data sometimes requires ~2,300 requests; the MVP works and already helps users.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 3:19SCRATCH YOUR OWN ITCH
- 13:23BUILD MVPS
- 15:51FIND MENTORS, EXPERTS, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS TO HELP YOU
- 19:36LEARN TO SPIKE
- 24:28DE- PRIORITIZE YOUR SIDE PROJECT TO PREVENT BURNOUT
- 26:38SHARE YOUR PROJECT, EVEN IF IT'S NOT
- 28:36IT'S POSSIBLE UNTIL PROVEN IMPOSSIBLE
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