hackforla / food-oasis

Repository for the current redevelopment of the Food Oasis Los Angeles website

Food Oasis

Food Oasis is a community-driven platform dedicated to ensuring everyone has access to food pantries and meal programs when they need them most. Operating across several regions, including Los Angeles County, The Hawaiian Islands, Santa Barbara County, and McKinney, TX. The web application bridges the gap between individuals and essential food assistance services, creating a supportive network within various communities.

• la.foodoasis.net or foodoasis.la - Los Angeles County
• hi.foodoasis.net - The Hawaiian Islands
• sb.foodoasis.net - Santa Barbara County
• mck.foodoasis.net - McKinney, TX

The codebase is fully open source, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. This project is a proud initiative of Hack for LA, under Civic Tech Structure.

How to contribute

Join us in making a difference:

1. Start by Onboarding: Complete the Hack for LA Onboarding. Joining is free!
2. Joining the Team: Read the onboarding section of our Wiki.
3. Volunteer Opportunities:
   • Validate and maintain pantry and meal program data.
   • Provide UX/UI design support.
   • Assist with usability testing.
   • Engage in marketing to connect with community members.
   • Contribute as a developer (see Developer Instructions for guidance).

For more details, visit the Food Oasis Wiki.

food-oasis's Issues

Contact Outlet - Recycling Soil Amendments

Overview

Connecting with orgs to build our database of stakeholders.

Action Items

Find Hunger Relief Orgs and add to DB
Find any relevant Coalitions for this subcategory of industry and add to DB
Contact the organizations you have found and document the information in DB
Resources/Instructions

Outlet Database

Have filter open in the side panel on desktop

Can the filters on desktop open in the panel?

This is a quick comp, but the idea should show how the filters would stay in that side panel.

Contact Outlet - Recycling Bio Fuel

Overview

Connecting with orgs to build our database of stakeholders.

Action Items

Find Hunger Relief Orgs and add to DB
Find any relevant Coalitions for this subcategory of industry and add to DB
Contact the organizations you have found and document the information in DB
Resources/Instructions

Outlet Database

Contact Connector - Volunteers

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Support complex open dates

This location is only open 4 days a month, how should we handle?

https://foodoasis.la/food-pantry/christian-association-for-social-services/?type=food-pantry|orchard|summer-lunch|community-garden|farmers-market|restaurant|pop-up-market|supermarket&address=christian%20association&deserts=1

Validate correct opening hours

From jlipshin:
Hi FOLA friends. 🙂 Just something that I am noticing as I'm visiting food pantries and calling them: a lot of the data about opening hours is incorrect.

I've visited three food pantries in the downtown area and called probably 4-5 others. And the hours have consistently been off...

Any ideas for how we can validate correct opening hours in a way that isn't super time consuming?

Contact Connector - Gov't Policies

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Switch Geocoding API from Google to Mapbox

https://www.mapbox.com/help/define-geocoding/

Contact Outlet - Pay As You Wish Cafes

Overview

Connecting with orgs to build our database of stakeholders.

Action Items

Find Hunger Relief Orgs and add to DB
Find any relevant Coalitions for this subcategory of industry and add to DB
Contact the organizations you have found and document the information in DB
Resources/Instructions

Outlet Database

Contact Connector - Food Storage

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Contact Individual - Disabled

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Contact Individual - Elderly

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Add a “work in progress” notice or terms of use

Let’s inform users that the website is sort of in beta, and that they should confirm location, hours and other information before visiting a healthy food source. For example, they should call a food pantry to confirm they’re open before traveling to it.

We could place a small notice in the header, with more information on a page by itself. Here’s an example from gov.uk…

https://www.gov.uk/help/terms-conditions

Shopify has a tool that may help…
https://www.shopify.com/tools/policy-generator

(@joshuazrobins got this task started.)

Bonus points: Consider how this might relate to the Privacy Notice and Opt In

Contact Outlet - Care Centers

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
  • Religious centers
  • Veterans center
  • Jewish community center
  • After-school program
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Add a privacy notice and tracking opt-in

We’re doing a few things on the website that may require legal notices…

• We ask users for their location when they perform a search.
• We’re using Hotjar and Google Tag Manager to collect information about user’s activity on the website.

Here’s an example from the gov.uk website…
https://www.gov.uk/help/cookies

Shopify has a tool that may help…
https://www.shopify.com/tools/policy-generator

(@joshuazrobins got this task started.)

Bonus Points: Give users an option to opt-in to tracking. We have a do not track script that sort-of does this, based on the user’s browser settings.

Super Bonus points: Consider how this might relate to the Terms of Use

Contact Connector - Hunger Relief Orgs

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Contact Donors - Supermarkets

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Turn the resources/organization into a research portal

Here is our searchable database of organizations in Los Angeles active in helping to create Food Security for all Angelenos.

Add a "what we map" section

Show users what we map and let them know the type of data that we are looking for!

Contact Individual - Family

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Make home page load faster on small devices

The image at the top of the home page is gigantic, and may be using a lot of bandwidth on small devices. We could improve this by using the new srcset and sizes attributes of the image element to serve smaller files.

Here’s the template for the home page…
https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/blob/master/_layouts/home.html

The first step will be to create different size images from the original files…https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/tree/master/assets/images/photos

And the second step will be to serve the appropriate image for the user’s device.

Step 1: Create the images

It might be nice to store the different size images in folders, named by their pixel width. For example…

/assets/images/photos/1000-wide/1.jpg
/assets/images/photos/1000-wide/2.jpg
/assets/images/photos/1000-wide/3.jpg

/assets/images/photos/2000-wide/1.jpg
/assets/images/photos/2000-wide/2.jpg
/assets/images/photos/2000-wide/3.jpg

We could do this manually with a tool like Photoshop, or generate the images automatically with ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick.

Here’s a Node package that supports both libraries…
https://www.npmjs.com/package/gm

And here’s a working example, using Gulp…
https://gist.github.com/jimthoburn/9799536fc0294c027e8b03063ae56061

Step 2: Serve the appropriate image

Browsers have built-in responsive image features…
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-definitions/

These work best with <img /> elements, but we’re presently using a CSS background-image.

Here are a few ways we can solve this…
A. Switch to an <img /> element. (I can help with this.)
B. Use the experimental CSS image-set feature.
C. Use CSS media queries.
D. Manually check for screen size and resolution, and choose an image using JavaScript.

Option A is generally the ideal choice, since it puts the user and their device in control of what image should be downloaded. Options B and C might be easier to implement. I think Option D could also be good choice in this case–since we’re already using JavaScript to choose an image and add it to the page.

These properties may help…

Device Width
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/width

Device Pixel Ratio
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devicePixelRatio

Improve "report a problem" form

Allow users to select what options/features they want to report/change.
See mapbox example:
https://www.mapbox.com/feedback/?referrer=https://foodoasis.la/locations/#/-118.28853301000001/34.28272567834216/9

Contact Individual - Live in Food Desert

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Create versioning for website

Will help us keep track of improvements and announce releases.

• What is our current version?
• How will we increment versions?

Contact Outlet - Food Banks/Food Pantries

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Add a "our features" section

Show people a list of our features and let them vote or suggest new ones

Contact Individual - Homeless

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Make it easier to choose a single category, when searching

Now that we have a lot of categories to choose from on the filters page, it takes some effort to uncheck them, and choose just one…
https://foodoasis.la/filters/

One way to solve this might be to replace the “reset” button with a new button that toggles between “uncheck all” and “check all”. (Thanks for the idea, Raven!)

Quick search on home page

When the user is on the home page on desktop or mobile, let's split the search box into two so the user can skip the step. (Related to https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/issues/91)

Consider creating a separate map for policy makers

Let’s create a map for policy makers that shows all of the food locations and food deserts.

Here’s a previous version the map that may be a good starting point…
https://foodoasis.la/map-all-locations/?address=Valley+Boulevard+and+Medford+Street

Contact Individual - Single Person

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Contact Individual - Student

Tasks

• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Make a printable map

Let’s add a print style sheet for the map page…
https://foodoasis.la/locations/

Here’s an example name and place for the file…

/assets/css/print.css

We can include it on the page, by adding a <link> element to the default template…
https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/blob/master/_layouts/default.html

For example…

<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="/assets/css/print.css" />

This should come after the other style sheets on the page, so it can override the rules inside them.

A simple improvement we can start with might be to disable the rules that limit the height of the list…

.has-active-map.location-list main {
  height: auto;
  overflow: visible;
}

That way, all of the list items will appear when printed.

Another improvement we can would be to replace the <canvas> element with an image, since most browsers will print an image, but will perhaps skip a canvas element when printing.

Here are a few resources that may help…

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10257781/can-i-get-image-from-canvas-element-and-use-it-in-img-src-tag#10257830
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toDataURL

Once we have printable map, we may want to advertise the feature by adding a print button to the page. We could place this next the filter button. For example…

<li class="filter">…</li>
<li class="print"><button type="button" onclick="window.print();">Print</button></li>

From a design point, here's what that button can look like:

print.svg.zip

Consider adding Street View images to the list view, map view, and/or detail pages.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/streetview#StreetViewContainers

Add a geolocate button that moves the “you are here” dot

Let’s add a button on the locations page that will find your position and refresh the map.

If you visit the locations page without entering your address, the map will try to guess your location…
https://foodoasis.la/locations/

If you do enter an address, the map will show that location instead…
https://foodoasis.la/locations/?address=San+Gabriel

In both cases, the map will stay fixed at that location.

Let’s add a button that will look for your location and update the map and the list.

This could be as simple as refreshing the page (leaving out the address), to start with.

Bonus points: If no address is present, automatically update the location as you move around the city!

Extra bonus points: Add another button that lets you update the locations on the map after zooming and panning–similar to the “Redo search in map” feature on Yelp…
https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=tacos&find_loc=Los+Angeles%2C+CA&ns=1

Add new Resources Search to website

https://malakdlo.github.io/foodoasisla-compdir2/#/list

Contact Donor - Manufacturers

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Ingest CultivateLA Dataset

Search for location by name

As a FOLA user I want to be able to search for a location by name, so that I can find a specific place

Not sure this is the most elegant solution, but if a user wants to search for a specific place, it is difficult/impossible right not unless they know the exact name. Adding a free text search to the "find" dropdown could solve this

This would be either/or - either they search by name or they search by the content types.

Another solution would be to make the "find" box always be a text input (no dropdown), but then we get back into issues of users not understanding what types of data we offer

Permanent search box on desktop

On desktop, add a permanent search box to the top bar (related to https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/issues/90)

Contact Donor - Restaurant Company

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Make it easier to get directions on the detail page

The detail pages have a map with the food source’s location, and a link a full-screen map page with directions (Google Maps).

We could make the map into a giant button that goes to the same place.

Or we could change the map on the page to include directions. Mapbox has an API that may help:
https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#retrieve-directions

Bonus points: Consider using “Mapbox classic” instead of “Mapbox GL” on the detail page, to make it consistent with the locations page: https://foodoasis.la/locations/?address=San+Gabriel

Contact Connector - Distributors

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Contact Outlet - Recycling Compost

Overview

Connecting with orgs to build our database of stakeholders.

Action Items

Find Hunger Relief Orgs and add to DB
Find any relevant Coalitions for this subcategory of industry and add to DB
Contact the organizations you have found and document the information in DB
Resources/Instructions

Outlet Database

Possibilities for anonymous user suggestions in the future

Instead of using the GitHub API to make commits on the user's behalf, which requires users have a GitHub account, a couple other options to look into are:

• Use http://jlord.us/sheetsee.js/ to put user suggestions into a public Google spreadsheet
• Maybe a GitHub integration would allow for anonymous contributions too?
• Anonymous GitHub gists might also be a possibility? (probably would be too hacked together though!)
• Maybe we could use Dropbox or another online storage option (see http://mavo.io/ for ideas too!)

Fix phone number format

Many of the locations on the website have a phone number with a missing space character. For example, the San Gabriel Mission…

[phone]

This should probably look like this instead…

[phone]

Or maybe this…

626-457-3035

A few ways we could solve this might be…

1. Manually update the markdown files.
2. Use Node.js to automatically update the markdown files. Here’s an example script that does something similar… https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/blob/master/_node/update-markdown.js
3. Change the formatting when presenting the phone number in the Jekyll template and the JavaScript.

Bonus points:

Make phone numbers look nicer on summer lunch locations, that include a persons name…
https://foodoasis.la/summer-lunch/la-villa-mariposa/?type=summer-lunch

Super bonus points:

Make closed dates and field trip dates look more standard and nicer on summer lunch locations…

• https://foodoasis.la/summer-lunch/the-salvation-army-compton-corps-community/
• https://foodoasis.la/summer-lunch/all-peoples-christian-center/

Contact Outlet - Shelters

Tasks

• Find relevant organizations
• Use research guide to conduct interview
• Save all data to research folder
• Add organization information to stakeholder database

Resources

• Primary research guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6KIEb1x7e_3lZdeFKEKsAvcNaD-RlxEHyRruLGdFI4/edit?usp=sharing

• Research folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12r33G1Ui2hpINLVfngR911B20ZclKKo3?usp=sharing

• Stakeholder database: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jfMFrMYPeAJHJu2OZ2rUpftJoRW2dEgh?usp=sharing

Make it easy to verify a location’s address and coordinates

These two locations have a latitude and longitude that doesn’t match their address…

• https://foodoasis.la/food-pantry/servants-arms-community-based-organization/
• https://foodoasis.la/farmers-market/l-a-central-avenue/

Let’s fix these and look for others with the same issue.

One approach might be to automatically generate a list that shows the latitude and longitude for each location in our data alongside a latitude and longitude from the Google Maps or Mapbox geolocation API (i.e. pass them the location address and see what comes back).

FOLA Latitude	FOLA Longitude	Google Maps Latitude	Google Maps Longitude
42.1077661	-87.9903638	34.0498231	-117.9359278

If the coordinates are very different, we could flag that location for a human to double-check.

Here’s a Node.js script that may help…
https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/blob/master/_node/update-markdown.js#L84-L121

Consider showing a special message if a user is in a food desert (Halina’s idea)

The previous version of the map had food desert regions marked in red…
https://foodoasis.la/map-all-locations/

This might help Los Angeles residents understand that their home is in a food desert.

We could do something similar on the current locations page, by showing a message like “This location is in a food desert”–perhaps with a link to the FAQs page.

This message could appear if the latitude and longitude fall within a food desert region–assuming that’s not too hard to code.

Support filtering by future days/times

We currently have an option to filter the search result by what’s “open now”.
https://foodoasis.la/filters/?open=1

Let’s allow users to choose a day and time in the future, so they can plan a trip to a healthy food location.

A simple way to start might be to add two <select> elements–one with the days of the week (Monday–Sunday), and another with the hours of the day (midnight–11am and noon–11pm).

Here’s a script for the “open now“ feature that we have now…
https://github.com/foodoasisla/site/blob/master/assets/js/helpers.js#L99-L135

Bonus Points: Highlight today’s date in the list of hours for each location, and show a special notice if a location is opening soon, closing soon, or has already closed.