Taiwan

Sahana Taiwan are customising & deploying an instance of Sahana Eden.

Initially this is to complement their ​Sahana Agasti deployment.

The proposal is for this to replace Agasti completely next year.

NCDR (National Science & Technology Center for Disaster Reduction) have a high tech EOC based around ESRI's ArcGIS. However, they are unable to get the data to local governments easily due to licensing costs, so a combination of GeoServer & Eden could help fill this niche. They are also interested in Sahana being able to feed their EOC with crowd-sourced data such as from SMS & Twitter.

Coordination is being dfone using this group: ​http://groups.google.com.tw/group/sahanatwpy

There is a demo site up at: ​http://py.sahana.tw/eden

Enhancements that the Sahana Taiwan team are interested in:

New Home Page

• Provide a summarized page for info overview and status updating (frequency configurable)
• Allow unauthenticated users to 'Report Incident' (Missing Person, Request Help or Incident) or 'Offer Help' (Volunteer or Pledge Resources)
• provide top-level stats about # resources registered in system
• Map overview

Mapping

Configured to use openstreetmap.tw & Google layers

Want to be able to overlay data from Agasti onto the Eden Map:

• Shelters

Locations Selector

• Use Taiwan's 4 levels of hierarchy
• Show the dropdowns & populate the lower dropdown when then the one above is selected (detect dropdown change using jQuery & collect new results using AJAX)
  • See an unfinished autocomplete example in views/gis/location_autocomplete.js
  • see if the different levels can be precached to a store to minimise user waiting?
• Context-sensitive filtering of dropdown (or Autocomplete) to the appropriate level

  db.gis_location.requires = IS_ONE_OF(db.gis_location, db.gis_location.id, filterby="level", filteropts="L4")
  

• Only allow Admins to edit the L0->L3 levels
• Fix #450 (Prevent an L2 being added as parent of L3, etc)
• Local Geocoder service to allow users to enter street address
  • Add Geocoder to modules/s3gis.py
  • Provide a widget within locations picker to call this function
• Select from Map

Messaging

• A local SMS Gateway is working with the system.
• This has been tested with ​Big5 encoding.

Authentication

• Want to be able to have users login once to access resources on both systems.
  • OpenID support has been added to Web2Py/Eden
  • Rewrite Agasti to access Eden user table? auth_user
    • Better to hack the legacy Agasti rather then the end-goal Eden

Authorization

• TaiwanAuthorisation
• Want defined Roles to be active on both systems
  • Memberships should only be defined once
    • Rewrite Agasti to access Eden membership table? auth_membership
      • Better to hack the legacy Agasti rather then the end-goal Eden
• Need support for the 'Shelter Administrator' role

Localisation

Translation into Chinese is underway

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