Map WIC Offices

[jesserosato]

It would be rad to map WIC offices as well as vendors. Not sure where we can find data on this, but it might work to just use data from a CSV or something and set up a server side route to retrieve it, since there's probably a fairly small number of these.

[natebass]

I found this on the CDPH website http://www.apps.cdph.ca.gov/wic/resources/laSearch/search.asp. It lets you search for WIC "Local Agencies." If we can find where this data is coming from we could use it.

[hesandoval]

This link takes you to an excel document that contains a list of the Authorized WIC Vendors of California:http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/wicworks/Documents/VMB/WIC-VMB-AuthorizedVendorsList.xls. Were you looking to place this information on a Google Map?

[jesserosato]

@Nate-Bass I saw that too. I'll talk to our contact at CDPH and see if we can get that data.

[jesserosato]

@hesandoval Good looking out! We're getting WIC vendor data from the new CDPH open data portal (health.data.ca.gov), but we're still looking for data on WIC office locations.

[josephlei]

@jesserosato I used Kimono to pull off all WIC office locations via the CDPH website and used a python library to geocode them all and transformed it into json format. There are some minor discrepancies, but it puts us in the game at ~700 locations. It is part of the pending merge request, can you please review and see if it can be merged?

Unfortunately I am not familiar with how to integrate it into the app, maybe Don can help with this? Thanks

[donmccurdy]

I'd be glad to look into the integration, yeah. :)

[donmccurdy]

I think I've lost track of where we're at on this – is #36 the data for this issue?

[jesserosato]

@donmccurdy It looks like. That's merged in now, so you should be able to get at that data.

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[josephlei]

I finally learned how to submit POSTs with viewstate and event generators so I have an updated master list of WIC offices including geocodes, cleaning it up and will be available soon, thanks

[sheldon-b]

Has this issue been fixed or is there still work to do @josephlei @donmccurdy?