Is a project for crowdsourcing the boundaries of a city's neighborhoods, as seen by the people who live there (ideally). Developed by Bostonography for that city's poorly-defined neighborhoods, it has since been applied to Burlington, VT and Denver, CO, with some interesting results.
- Create a MySQL database on your host server, with
- One table that contains a reeeeeaaaaalllly long text field named "json"
- You might also want a timestamp field for sorting things out later
- Configure hoods.php and gethoods.php with your database details
- Configure hoods.js with your list of neighborhood names, city centerpoint and splash screen intro text
- Visit the site, draw a few test polygons and watch them pile up in results.html
- Andy Woodruff (Author)
- Bill Morris (Repo monkey)