Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain.
Public Tree Map documents all ~35,000 public street and park trees in Santa Monica's urban forest. The map includes contextual information collected from open datasets and digitized city records. To reflect tree plantings and removals, the map updates every day. We're also working to add tree data from other cities in LA county. Work in progress:
A web application that allows citizens to "adopt" a storm drain in San Francisco. In use, and in development at other brigades. Looking for a maintainer or someone interested in developing further in collaboration with others across the country.
Spare connects people in need of clothing and other essentials with people in the community who have things to spare. It is like a one-on-one Goodwill. We are hoping the donation can be a mechanism for building these connections throughout our community.
Heart is a project working directly with the LA City Attorney’s Homeless Engagement and Response Team. We are building a database and case management system to streamline their workflow and enable them to scale their program. Find us on the Hack for LA Slack #heart.
Visualization of parking data to assist in understanding of the effects of parking policies on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis in the City of Los Angeles
LA Family Housing, an LA-based non-profit working to end the homelessness crisis, engaged the help of Hack for LA to identify and design a more efficient & effective solution for matching multiple individuals who experience homelessness as potential co-tenants, and placing the matched individuals in suitable shared housing units.