Apps for Democracy – Submission Update

We’ve finally decided on the application we will be submitting to the Apps for Democracy innovation contest. After juggling around some different ideas, we were torn between the idea of building an application targeted towards businesses or consumers. We felt that the application would get more use from consumers so we decided to build a D.C. Historic Tours application.

D.C. Historic Tours will allow for consumers to select from a variety of historical options provided by the D.C. Data Catalog including historic streets, structures, landmarks and sites. After selecting the destinations that they would like to visit, the application will plot and route the most efficient walking or driving tour. In addition to integrating with the D.C. Data Catalog, the application will utilize Flickr to provide images of the historic sites as well as restaurants and reviews along their route from Yelp.

Highlights

Easy to use Google Maps interface for navigating tours
Ability to create your own tour
Ability to browse user-submitted tours and provide ratings and comments
Integration with multiple data sets:
- ‘Historical’ data from the District of Columbia Data Catalog
- Yelp.com restaurant data
- Flickr photo data

Features

Users can do the following:

Create an account (email, password)
Create/manage a profile (required: username; optional: location, gender, age, brief bio)
Login (email, password)
Browse tours
View and filter historical data on map by category (districts, streets, structures, landmarks, other)
View and filter restaurant data on map by category
Rate a tour (1 to 5 stars)
Add a tour to ‘favorites’ list
Add a comment
Create a tour
View, edit, and delete created tours
View and delete favorite tours