MDCPE (Miami-Dade County Permit Estimator)

What

The Miami-Dade County Permit Estimator is an open source project for sorting, calculating and managing the open permit data from Miami-Dade County’s database. The purpose of this project is to give individuals and businesses a clearer understanding of permit pricing and availability by offering a more human-friendly interface for accessing Miami-Dade County’s public permit data.

Status

The project as of August 13, 2015 is in its first iteration.

Link

A live demo of this project can be found at www.mdcpe.co

How

Getting Started

To set up your local database with Miami-Dade County’s data, please follow the instructions below:

A rake task as been included (listed as ‘populate_database.rake’) with this project. This task is responsible for populating your local database with county’s data.

1. Open your terminal application and run git clone https://github.com/RickyGonzJr/mdcpe to clone this project onto your computer.

2. cd into your mdcpe folder.

3. Run rake db:migrate to create your table.

4. Run rake populate_database:permits to populate your table with Miami-Dade County’s permit data. This process will take some time. You can limit how many rows of data you decide to pull down by adjusting the $limit value in the HTTParty response. If you’d like to pull down all of the data, simply remove this value.

Who

The creators of this project are Steve Toro, Christina Vinces and Ricky Gonzalez Jr.

A big thank you to the following people and organizations for their help in the creation of this project:

Ernie Hsiung, Mike Sarasti, Ed Toro & Code for Miami

License

This application is freely available under the MIT License: https://github.com/RickyGonzJr/mdcpe/blob/master/LICENSE.md