Side Project

[Bryce Groff]

Aloha Everyone,

Put this project together and thought I would put it out there for comments and use. Check it out at http://ev-hawaii.mavensllc.com

Backstory: A while ago DBEDT (Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism) put out a "database" (it's a pdf: http://energy.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Hawaii-EV-Charging-Station-Database-April-2-MSL-Final.pdf) of electric vehicle stations in Hawaii. I thought it would be nice to have a little RESTful interface and some nice maps around it. Let me know what you think or better yet if you can use it.

Cheers,

Bryce

[Jason Axelson]

Wow, looks nice Bryce! Now I just need an electric car :)

I think you should submit your web app to the Can-Do portal:
http://can-do.honolulu.gov/apps

Also, maybe we could get Burt/Ryan to mention it on Bytemarks. Do you
have a blog-post or G+ post about the making of it anywhere?

Just as a side note both the city and state are launching open data
portals (with API's) although I don't see the electric vehicle
charging station info on there:
https://data.honolulu.gov/
https://data.hawaii.gov/ (not open to the public yet?)

Jason

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[Burt Lum]

Hi Bryce,

Nice job. I know this is a little last minute but we have a meetup scheduled tonight right after the radio show to feature work being done with open data. Please come if you can. You can talk about your charging station map.

http://www.meetup.com/Hacks-Hackers-Hawaii/events/78590612/

Thanks,

Burt

Sent from my iPad

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[Bryce Groff]

Aloha Burt,

Thanks for the invite, I will try to make it. What time is the show over? 7:15-30ish?

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[Forest Frizzell]

Bryce,

Pretty cool. I'm almost positive that the EV charging station data is collected by the State. I will look into it though, if its City that is a worthwhile data set to get up on our site.

Our data.honolulu.gov site is up and running and I encourage you guys to take a look at it and get familiar with it. If you search by "newest" we just added Crime Stats (updates bi-weekly) and traffic incidents (updates every 10 mins, but we'll narrow that down as we continue testing). Both have standard API's. 

We also launched a new GIS site  http://cchnl.maps.arcgis.com/home/  that has developer tools. Our http://sirens.honolulu.gov/ site is pulling the siren data off of that site.

We have a Github account as well, https://github.com/honolulu

If you would like us to feature the EV app on can-do and its production ready please give me a little write up about the app and we'll get it up there.  As a former EV owner it would be nice to have a comment section.  A number of the stations in Waikiki aren't available to the public, and the one in Kaka'ako by the med school is always broken down. 

Aloha,

-Forest

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