Roadmap: OpenGrid

This document describes the goals, vision, and direction of OpenGrid. With limited resources it is critically important that we focus our efforts in a disciplined manner. We simply can't do everything at once.

To provide direction and focus to the project, the core OpenGrid Team (EKI and City of Chicago) have started to meet about every six weeks to plan and retrospect for future and past releases respectively. The goal is to plan for the next sprint midway through the current sprint (e.g. if we are in the middle of dev period for v1.1.0, we will plan for v1.2.0). Each planning meeting will result in this document being updated with a roadmap for each release.

Below you will find our upcoming releases and a list of the tasks we will focus our development efforts on for that release. These tasks are categorized by priority as arranged within the milestones. As OpenGrid is open sourced and we welcome contributors outside of City of Chicago employees, please coordinate with @PriyaDoIT

For the most part, we would like developers to focus on the top priority tasks, before moving on to the lower priority ones. This is not to say that things will never be done out of order, but our priorities have been chosen carefully, taking into account dependencies between different tasks. If developers contribute new features outside the focus of the current release, it is likely that we will ignore their contributions until a later release. Work on bug fixes will always be given high priority.

Overview of 2016

Development focus for OpenGrid v1.1.0 - Tuesday, July 19,2016

This release will add new features that improves geospatial filtering. This will also introduce Version 1.1 of the API Other improvements will be made as possible.

• Update Advanced Search to support service-side geoSpatial filtering
• Use queries with relative dates
• Differentiate color of dots for each dataset
• Sort the datasets under Add Dataset
• Update OpenGrid Service API documentation with new geo-spatial filtering feature

Development focus for OpenGrid v1.2.0 - Wednesday, August 31, 2016

This release will focus more on usability based on results from CUT Group testing as well as feedback from internal city of Chicago OpenGrid (aka WindyGrid) users.

• Support queries with relative time
• Basemap update to use MapBox
• Zoom to Map Extent by default
• Improve Quick Search to display multiple quick search results. Also will support Quick Search to function with Advanced Search as opposed to only allowing the user to use one or the other search functions.
• Submit and Reset buttons to appear as a footer on the page so that the user does not need to scroll down to click on those options.
• Display all datasets by default upon opening OpenGrid
• Move the map icons for layers and distance so that they are not covered by the Advanced Search Panel
• Trim space above Color and Opacity Options
• Retract Advanced Search Pane after executing Query
• Improvements to design in showing selected items

Development focus for OpenGrid v1.3.0

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• Ability to Query Arrays

Development focus for OpenGrid v1.4.0

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• Allow maps to be printable
• Support bubbles on map to represent the volume of an instance