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• Try making a map with Mapbox, similar to Madrid example
• Check options for embedding Mapbox map
• Look at ITS Wordpress, try to build theme locally?
• Talk to Juan, Angela Wu (ITS web lead) about eventually using ITS site

The algorithm assumes that streets are represented as voids in the parcel polygons.

The documentation explains this, but we should add an explicit check. (Otherwise, it will fail with a disk space or other error.)

Most of these suggestions are in the category "would be nice but not essential." So start with the easy ones. And if you disagree with any of these or have other suggestions, let's discuss.

Box in top RH corner

• Delete the title "Individual Street Width and Value" (I think it's obvious from elsewhere on the page"
• Replace text with "Click an orange circle to zoom to a county, then hover over a street!"
• Undefined street names: can we replace with "Unnamed street"
• Change format to: Street name is XX feet wide and has a land value of $XX per parcel
• Round the land value to the nearest dollar

Boxes in top LH corner

• Change "Values" to "Land values"
• Change "Residential Only" to "Show Only Residential Streets"
• Can the Residential Only box be unhighlighted when unchecked?

Legend

• Convert to continuous color bars with tick marks
• Tick marks at round numbers for land value
• Add a legend title that changes with values or widths: (i) Street width (ft) and (ii) Street land value ($ per parcel)
• If there is space at the bottom, add this in italics and smaller font when Values is suggested: Assumes 50ft wide parcels on each side of the street. If there isn't space, we can explain elsewhere on the site

General

• Zoom in a little more on the landing page (don't need to show Canada). For me, these settings work well
  center: [-100, 39],
  zoom: 4.6
• Add county names to landing page
• Font: how about Trebuchet MS or Verdana? The first can be implemented with
  font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif;

Is Mapbox the best solution? What models should we emulate?

• Research pricing, user interface, functionality for Mapbox and 1-3 alternatives
• Identify examples that we might try and emulate (regardless of platform)

• Export another county of data (in MA or NY?)
• Add in columns for street value, other derived columns
• Remove extraneous columns
• Add in other OSM ways that don't have data

When we get to that point, we should make sure to:

• add back in roads with no data (e.g. in gated communities), and symbolize as gray or something similar
• symbolize freeways, other types of road (?) differently (don't show width

• add legend
• Landing page showing all counties with data? Click on circle to zoom. Or some other interface
• start with only showing residential, checkbox to show all streets
• any analytics possible? At least for the zoomed-to county, ideally for the view area
• symbolize multiple layers and toggle
• filter by year (fbuy) with slider

• Set up Slack channel
• Push code to github
• Export a sample county