Hack for LA

Hack for LA is the official Los Angeles chapter of Code for America, a national nonprofit that believes government can work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century. At our weekly Civic Hack Nights, we organize groups of volunteers to build technology addressing the LA region's biggest civic issues. We welcome technologists, government officials, designers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and community members to join us and collaboratively create a better Los Angeles.

Join us

Want to meet our partners and sponsors? Join us 8am - 4pm Saturday June 6th and 8am - 4pm Sunday June 7th to meet our community partners and our sponsors for Hack for LA 2015. We will have booths from the following organizations:

ESRI

Sense360

Civic Innovation Lab

If you'd like more info on exhibiting as a vendor in the expo please contact [email protected]

We want to visually document what's both good and bad about riding bikes in Los Angeles. Cyclists would - submit unique Locations (bike friendly businesses, hidden local gems like late-night taco trucks, co-working spaces, etc), - share Paths such as crosstown bikeways, shortcut streets to avoid traffic, - add Incidents like driver harassment, crashes, bike theft, etc. In the next two days, we want to get a simple and cleanly designed submission form to make it easy to engage users to contribute visuals + data. Old version: http://labikemap.com/ Newer version: http://solid.it.cx/bikemap/

We can easily track location over time, but connecting people to future location seems to require a complicated network timetables, such as Google Maps uses for public transportation routing.

My goal for this hackathon is to digest tracking data from real bicycle routes in the past, and match that against a user's location, destination, and desired departure/arrival time.

In the last hackathon in December, I worked out a prototype in Node and Express to serve Strava data against a search. Most of the time was spent setting up the framework. This time around, with a boilerplate, more data, and some help, I intend to start fresh and finish with a repo projects like LA Bike Trains can implement.

Here's a gist with some logic and user stories I'm hashing out: https://gist.github.com/monking/c0f68340eba759258d4b

We're beginning to plan for our next Hack for LA event - which sponsors we should reach out to, what kind of prizes we should offer, what data we should try and have available, and how we should focus our work.  Please give us your feedback about which LA issues and data are most interesting to you - there are only 3 questions!