fire-rescue-map

Data visualization project using cville Fire/EMS data. Demo is available at meekohi.com/rids.

Getting Started

If you don't want to scrape the data yourself, you can download the resulting files from http://meekohi.com/rids/data/calltimes.json and http://meekohi.com/rids/data/rids.json

Scraping Data

! As of Nov 2022 the FIDS service has been shut down, and it is not possible to scrape new data using this method. The "Replacement" https://web.pulsepoint.org/ does not have sufficient information to be useful unfortunately.

• You will need nodejs and mongodb installed.
• To geolocate addresses, you will need a Developer Key for the Google Geolocation API.
  • note: the geolocation calls will probably cost you $20 or so. There might be a better free alternative.
• cd getData; npm install - to get setup.
• node downloadEvents.js - scrapes data from the RIDS system and puts it in MongoDB.
• node geolocateEvents.js - uses Google's Geolocation API to add latitude/longtitude to each incident.
• node outputData.js - outputs incidents in a JSON format in /data/ that is more compact and useful for the front-end.

Visualization

• Fire up a web server and go to fire-rescue-map/index.html.