311 Geotagging application

[Ted]

*Scenario*
User sees public maintenance issue
User goes to mobile application
User allows application to access the user's location
User takes picture with phone
User submits a complaint form with location data included (and picture
if we build using PhoneGap or straight-up obj-C/Cocoa)

If we want to just do all of this through a RESTful mobile web app, we
can get everything but an API to talk to the mobile camera. I don't
currently know my way around the iPhone SDK, and it seems that for the
time allotted a web app might be the best way to go.

http://blog.bemoko.com/2009/06/17/iphone-30-geolocation-javascript-api/

[Mark Headd]

Baltimore doesn't (yet) have a 311 API to submit service requests to, but SeeClickFix does:

http://help.seeclickfix.com/kb/api/api-overview

Might be worth considering integrating with that.  Just a thought.

Mark

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[Ted]

Thanks Mark!

We should talk Saturday to see if posting straight to SeeClickFix or
maybe Jonathan's idea of re-warehousing the data temporarily might be
best. We could probably get away with both pretty easily too.

Looks like DC already has an app just like this also using
SeeClickFix: http://www.victorshilo.com/dc311/. Do we know how open-
minded the city of Baltimore would be in using SeeClickFix?