Foodbanks.nyc: Connecting NYC to food banks.
Foodbanks.nyc searches 500+ NYC food banks to find the nearest one open for you.
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Features - First and only food bank locator for NYC that enables time-based searches
- Only mobile-friendly food bank locator - critical for families without desktop / laptop computers
- Helps to fill the lack of food bank info on Google Maps and other major location apps
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Built With - Bulma CSS front end
- Geokit for distance calculation
- Nokogiri KML parsing
- Google Places API predicts location queries + map display
- Sinatra backend
- PostgreSQL DB
Get Started
Visit http://www.foodbanks.nyc/
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Contributors Guide Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/elliotblanchard/sinatra-food-bank. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration.
License
The app is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.