treequeen / concordia-work-notices

A script that generates data from a Concordia University newsfeed for construction work notices and displays it on a campus map

Mapping Concordia work sites

What's in this repo:

scrape_notices_and_map.ipynb/.py: A script that generates data from a Concordia University newsfeed for construction work notices and displays it on an interactive campus map
rss_scraper.py: A standalone script that can be customized to scrape entire posts/articles in an RSS newsfeed
notices.csv: Data scraped from this feed: https://www.concordia.ca/offices/facilities/news.html
noticemap.html: An example of the interactive map that is created after running the script

Makes the below map (See noticemap.html for interactive preview):

Notes:

Currently you need to run code manually in order to get updated map.

In the works:

Plans to update to make the map automatically update with live notices.

Plans to add other buildings on downtown campus.

This project was originally created in Winter 2024 for Prof. Heloisa Macedo's course GEOG 464 (Programming for Geospatial Technologies) at Concordia University.