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# Project notes

## About

This project's goal is to highlight the complexity and expense needed to fix all the crumbling infrastructure. Rather than celebrate the recent Infrastructure bill as a success, Dr. Hubbard aims to drive the narrative in a more realistic direction. $500bn is not enough compared to the sheer scope of what needs to be fixed in our nation.

## Members

 * [Dr. Stephen Hubbard](smhubbardpp@gmail.com)
 * [Brian DeRocher](brian@derocher.org)
 * [Quyen Tran](https://github.com/qtrandev)
 * [Jeff Elkner](https://elkner.net)
 * [Matthew Gallagher](https://github.com/mattva01)
 * [Roy Mosby](https://github.com/royemosby)
 * [Grant Stafford-Renard](https://codeberg.org/Grant)



## Anticipated Challenges

## Questions for Answering

- How to moderate content?
- How to gather metadata on submitted infrastructure

## Architecture

* GitHub repository: https://github.com/code4nova/infrastructure-map

## Technologies
* Current proposal is
    * [GeoDjango](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/contrib/gis/)
    * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net/)
    * DigitalOcean for hosting
    * PostgreSQL database
    * Python3.9 is used

## Resources
* Code for America
    * We have some money with Code for America that can be used to be paid for DigitalOcean hosting costs

## Various thoughts to organize
* Useful partners might be:
    * Bikers
    * Covered bridge enthusiasts
* Might be useful to structure like geocache community/foursquare (someone "sponsors")
* [Overpass API](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API)
* [Research Paper on The National Infrastructure](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Hubbard/publication/353906977_The_National_Infrastructure_Information_Agency_and_The_National_Infrastructure_Reserve_Bank/links/6117de9f1ca20f6f86224f76/The-National-Infrastructure-Information-Agency-and-The-National-Infrastructure-Reserve-Bank.pdf)


