Progress Report #1: TALKICITY APP
Overview:
Our team is building an interactive tool (app) that allows individuals to engage and learn about the toxins around them. As a team, we are including interactive section to the app that allows communities to have interaction, hopefully encouraging them to speak up about their local toxins experience or issues. Since our project proposal our team has made progress in collecting data for the app. Because we are each assigned to gather specific information (different topics), each individual is responsible for collecting valid data to incorporate into the app.
The sections that each individual is assigned:
- Saunder: App Creator
- Adam: gathering data about water ( quality, and contamination)
- Angie: gathering data about land (toxic waste, mix waste landfill)
- Elicia: gathering data about air (pollution)
Goal: We are adding data that we have collected, but our goal is to allow the others in the communities to allow data as well.
Upcoming Meeting:
Since our app is based off of the toxicity map, we are wanting to work with the creators of this map. Professor Shaughnessy has gotten into touch with the creators of Sacred Trust NM to come up with a meeting day in the next week. For this meeting, we are wanting to get feedback on the app. Getting input on the app is important being that is going to be available for everyone to use. We are hoping to get as much information out of them so we can improve on our app as much as possible before the due date. We hope they are honest with the feedback, and are happy with the app progress so far being that they have been wanting to turn it into something more than just a PDF.
Challenges with app:
Because the coding of the app includes google maps, we are wanting to change it to the toxicity map being that we are working with this specific map. The challenge is getting the correct code being that it’s just a PDF upload. When we attend the meeting, we are hoping the map creator can help us get access to the coding information.
Data update:
In addition to the data, our team has been doing a great job at adding information to our google doc. On this doc, everyone is responsible for adding information about their topics. This makes it easier for Saunder to add information to the app as he is continuing to create and update it.
Overall, everyone is being active, and full-filling their responsibilities!
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Saunder, Adam, Elicia, and Angie