What kind of features would this hypothetical product need from your community to be useful? To have a small paid tier such as a small fee per map/month/year?
This is very cool! It reminds me of Jekyll for github blogs. What blog software are you using? It looks like Ghost? Good job! If you use Bitcoin would love to tip.
Wow, I never thought about it like that, becoming public infrastructure. If that were to happen, what would keep the Department of Transportation in each state from adopting beacons and installing them on mile-markers, etc?
I really like the idea of a beacon, but I wonder how far out that beacon could be picked up by a user driving down the highway towards it?
Or maybe relating to my last comment above, use a 3G/4G device to broadcast information to a "City API" that a app on the user's phone can utilize for notifications, etc?
That is a great idea, but by crowdsourcing I assume you mean the end-users reporting the accident, the work zone, etc. correct?
I love that idea and it is a old/tested one, but from a safety perspective do we want people touching their phones while driving to report the location? If they wait till they reach their destination to report, the accident may be cleaned up or the exact location data of the work zone may become inaccurate. Also, who would be in charge of removing that data, checking if an accident is gone, etc?
Just some random questions I am throwing out there. I was going more for a very cheap 3G/4G-enabled device to broadcast live to a "City API". Thoughts?
I would highly recommend taking a look at www.ghost.org
I use it for my online presence to essentially talk about the same thing that you are. It is very simple to use and made for a great, clean reading experience. I am just using the default theme provided because I like the simplicity and elegance of it. Feel free to browse to my website to get a feel for it.
P.S. It requires a dedicated capable of running node.js apps, I recommend Digital Ocean for this. You can get just what you need to start at $5 a month.
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If you are looking for someone trying to learn rails as well. I am your man! I also know html, css, js/jQuery, php/laravel framework and some node.js/express.js
In my experience, I would highly recommend Digital Ocean. Their experience is boiled down to what matters to dev's: simplicity and speed in setup. You can get started with a Droplet (what they call a dedicated virtual) for as low as 5$ a month for 512mb ram.
Wow this is a really interesting style of navigation. I honestly have never seen this befor, well done!
I really like how smooth transitions are. Also, the action of dragging down to match your menu item is very "fun" for the user. Overall a wonderful UI to use.
Are you planning on using this for a project or just playing around?
Hey guys, I want to keep this thread going. This concept jump-started my noggin and wanted to gen-up a quick concept. The mockup has not been made responsive yet as I do not have the resources where I am currently.
I have done a lot of geospatial app development.