New Media Logic
Team Members
- Aaron
- ctenbrink
Voting Statistics
- leaderboard position
- 3
- overall average
- 2.681
- appearance
- 2.956
- completeness
- 2.453
- innovation
- 2.801
- usefulness
- 2.517
- total ratings
- 896
What
Imagine you're a kayaker and you're planning a 2-week trip on an epic backcountry river like the Salmon River in Idaho, but you've never been there before. Where do you go to find out how to run the difficult rapids? Where the good campsites are? What the water flow is going to be the day of your trip?
Riverdex will be a whitewater-oriented social network that harnesses the power of the community to provide better information about United States' rivers and their rapids.
For the Rails Rumble iteration, we've decided to build out the USGS water flow portions of the site. We are fetching current and historical water flow data from the US Geological Survey using a gem Chris Tenbrink built. We then aggregate that data into interactive charts called "hydrographs", which show the statistical likelihood of a given water flow on a given day.
Where
- Entry URL:
- http://riverdex.com
- Info / Screencast URL:
- http://aaronlongwell.com/
How
GEMS
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- rSpec
- USGS Waterdata
Plugins
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- jRails
- db-populate
- add_column_after
- restful-authentication
- Ziya and XML/SWF Charts
As stated by the developers, the only part implemented are the hydrographs, which is table data available from USGS. Look nice, and it’s a start, but far from the vision of the app as a “whitewater-oriented social network”.
Kudos on the use of Helvetica. Makes every app better!
The portions you see are using the parsed flat file. We have developed some additional features already that use the XML data sources for getting gauge coordinates. We’re going to be positioning gauges on a map, with correct locations relative to rapids, put-ins and takeouts.
I created a very simplified version of a USGS WaterData app for fly-fishing a couple of months ago, but didn’t get it out of localhost development. Your app looks very nice. Data for more rivers would be nice. Are you using the beta HydroML from the USGS or are you parsing the flat file?
i thought the stats above were kind of low for this app.. while the app isn’t of any use to me personally, i could definately see it’s value for people into that sorta thing. great job yall