building larimer county's road event status system (ress) (nagw 2016)

National Association of Government Web Professionals 1

Building RESS The Road Event Status System

for Larimer County, ColoradoGregg Turnbull


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larimercounty.github.io/nagw_2016_ress_goodies.html

National Association of Government Web Professionals

Linkedin in Logos

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Post Webmaster for Larimer County

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Photo: Seneca Post Office - http://www.ellisacehardware.com/about_us


Intro to Larimer County

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CO


LarimerCounty


186,136

311,435

Larimer County Growth (since 1990)


4,155,916 visits in 2015 Up 21% from 2014

Photo: Running Wild - https://plaviska1970.wordpress.com/tag/revel-rockies-marathon/


Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, COPhoto: Haunted Travel USA- http://www.hauntedtravelsusa.com/me/haunted-travels-usa/the-stanley-hotel-9743.html


Stephen KingPhoto: Horror Freak News - http://horrorfreaknews.com/tag/stephen-king


The Shining – First Edition Cover (1977) / Artist: Dave Christensen

National Association of Government Web Professionals 18 Photo: Still from Stanley Kubrick's ‘The Shining’ 1980


Napa Valley of Beer

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“Napa Valley ofCraft Brew”

Photo: ‘Three Four Beer Company – Sonya K. Photographyhttp://www.sonjakphotography.com/blog/2015/12/16/three-four-beer-company-fort-collins-colorado-corporate-photographer


There may be other things..

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Colorado Green Tours - http://www.coloradogreentours.com

National Association of Government Web Professionals 23 Elevation Finder– Loveland Colorado


Legacy Road Closure System

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1) Closure Data 2) Map Data

Road EventData

SubscriptionData (email address)

3) Notify Subscribers

Notify Subscribers

of ALL EventsVia SMTP EMAIL

DOB: 2005 to 2008


Retiring the Architecture

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Moving to a newarchitecture


Email Notifications (SMTP Server)

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To Start - Build a Team

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August 2015Product Owner

Scrum Master

GIS

Web


Where to Start?

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The Map

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Product Owner and GIS

Editors can draw events - using points and lines

They can attach event data - type, times, impact, etc.

Citizens can browse Events - on the map and over time

What’s Left?


... The Citizen

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Need the info in a easy to digest format (sortable table?)

Report on events sent weekly to subscribers

updates sent on single events in real time


Time for REST

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Gotcha > ArcGIS API

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outSR=4326


JSON DATA ALLOWS…

RESS EditorsEmbedded event

maps

Table View

Notifications

REST SERVICES


Technologies Used

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Embedded eventmaps

Table View

REST SERVICES

Notifications


Why Angular?

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• REST Services / JSON data

• Single Page App (SPA)

• Sortable

• Grouped by Category

• Easy to Transport

ColdFusion -> Drupal


RESS Table View

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ArcGIS -> Angular Gotcha


Weekly Digest

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• Scheduled from the site

• Drag and Drop Template

• Secure and self managed

• Self healing


Scheduled on the Site

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RSS Template (w /Mergetags)

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Sign Up (embed)

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Analytics

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Analytics

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More.. Analytics

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Overview of Weekly Digest

CITIZENS

Signed up using embedded form on larimer.org

RSS

Request for RESS Data 6PM on Thurs

MailChimpRSS template

RSS Data populates notification template Email sent to subscribers via

MailChimp service

Social Media Integration


Some Special/Social Sauce

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Notifications Received


Event Update (Push)

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• Sent from our server via API call

• Coded Template hosted on

MailChimp

• Uses the same Subscriptions


Overview of Sending an Update

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CITIZENS

Event Update informationSent via Mailchimp API

MailChimp coded template

Dashboard

Event Update informationSent via Mailchimp API

RESS Editor


API Key in MailChimp

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API Key in MailChimp

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Gotcha MailChimp API Key

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What’s Next

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We are the MusicMakers

We are theDreamers of Dreams…


@gregg

Thank You

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@greggturnbull

/in/greggturnbull

[email protected]

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