About

Provides a web service that provides trash and recycling pickup information for the City of Austin.

Requirements

Run bin/atx-recycles-svc either from a command line for development, or via Phusion Passenger for production.

The LIBSPATIALITE path may need to be specifically set when running the service:

LIBSPATIALITE=/usr/local/opt/libspatialite/lib/libspatialite.dylib bin/atx-recycles-svc

Example:

REQUEST:

GET http://localhost:4567/svc?latitude=30.362&longitude=-97.734 

RESPONSE:

{
   "origin":{
      "latitude":30.362,
      "longitude":-97.734
   },
   "routes":[
      {
         "type":"GARBAGE",
         "route":"PAH60",
         "service":{
            "day":"THURSDAY"
         }
      },
      {
         "type":"RECYCLE",
         "route":"RHAU14",
         "service":{
            "day":"THURSDAY",
            "week":"A",
            "nextrecycle":"03/14/2013"
         }
      },
      {
         "type":"BRUSH",
         "route":"BR22",
         "service":{
            "nextservdate":"05/12/2013"
         }
      },
      {
         "type":"BULKY",
         "route":"BU30",
         "service":{
            "nextservdate":"08/11/2013"
         }
      },
      {
         "type":"YARD_TRIMMING",
         "route":"HY10"
      }
   ]
}

Helpful notes

• The atx-recycling.html file may be used to test the service response.
• It may be helpful to use the spatialite gui db browser app to browse the raw database tables;

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