/eat-healthy-NYC

New York City Department of Health BigApps challenge

Primary LanguagePython

Farmers Markets NYC

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Advancing access to healthy and sustainable eating, with a focus on low income families.

This project has been deprecated.

Once Upon a Time

NY Farmers Markets: Interactive map and admin portal. Let local foodies marry the tech savy and bring sustainable farming into the 21st century. This is a mobile first application.

It's alive: http://www.farmers-markets.nyc

Functionality

  • Every farmers' market in New York State is on this map
  • As the key indicates, from a quick glance users can see which markets accept EBT and which don't
  • Markets that are open today are opaque and highlighted, vs markets that are closed today are less opaque
    • So the markets that are open today are easy to see!
  • On click of a market you can view its hours and more info
  • You can get directions (walking/biking/transit/car) from your current location to a market

Running Locally

Setting up/Running for the first time

  • Clone/fork repo
$ git clone https://github.com/aberke/eat-healthy-NYC.git
$ cd /eat-healthy-NYC
  • Create a virutual environment so that the following installations do not cause conflicts. Make sure to reactivate this virtual environment each time you want to run the server locally. All the following installations will be isolated in this environment.
$ sudo pip install virtualenv
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

  • Install dependencies: $ pip install -r requirements.txt

  • Install mongo and run locally with $ mongod

  • Initialize database from the CSV file

$ python -c 'from app.data import initialize_markets; initialize_markets()'

  • Make sure all works by running the tests (see documentation below)

  • Run server python run.py and visit http://127.0.0.1:5000

Running again

  • Start virtual environment $ source venv/bin/activate
  • Run server python run.py and visit http://127.0.0.1:5000

Development Mode

  • In /static/map.js uncomment DEVELOPMENT = true;
    • Centers map on Union Square farmer's market
    • Useful when developing in remote location, say Cambridge MA

Tests

  • Tests located in test directory
  • Run all tests with $ python run_tests.py
  • Run tests selectively by commenting/uncommenting items in testmodules list in run_tests.py

Data

Data source is from https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Farmers-Markets-in-New-York-State/qq4h-8p86

  • Stored as state-farmers-markets.csv

Data built from csv files and stored in Mongo DB database

Data Commands

Interface in /data/__init__.py

  • build_data()
    • builds market data object from csv files
    • does not interact with database
  • get_markets()
    • pulls all markets from database

Ops notes

Hosted on heroku: http://eat-healthy-nyc.herokuapp.com Domains: - www.farmers-markets.nyc - www.farmersmarkets.works