Philly Mural Finder

Description

The Philly Mural Finder is a mobile application which ads an interaction layer to the thousands of murals from the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

Data

The base mural data comes from http://www.muralfarm.org

Getting up and running locally

• Setup a local webserver (MAMP, XAMPP, etc.)
• Fork this repository into a folder that is accessible by your webserver (i.e. /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/)
• View the app in a webkit broswer by going to http://localhost/{path to muralapp}/public/index.html

Roadmap

This project is new and liable to change quickly, but here is the vision for the first few iterations.

• A map loads in a mobile browser showing murals near them.
• A user can select a mural and find out more information on it (photo, description, etc.).
• A user can favorite a mural.
• A user can comment on a mural.
• A user can 'share' a mural. (e.g. facebook/twitter)
• Expand upon the types of art mapped
• Data collection capabilities

Research and understand needs of mural art community Research public wall spaces in Philadelphia

• Make separate native app versions of web app

• iPhone platform

• Android platform

• Use PhoneGap for conversion to native app

Copyright (c) 2011, John Mertens, Code for America All rights reserved.

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