Save Our Gulf is an initiative of Waterkeeper Alliance to support the Gulf Waterkeepers directly impacted by the BP oil disaster. One of the main reasons I started Level OS was to leverage my professional skills to help organizations who were doing work I wanted to support. Rarely has there been a group more deserving of help, or a disaster more devastating to a region, than the recent Gulf oil spill. The Waterkeeper Alliance needed a tool to report on the damage being caused by the pill, and tell the true story of what was, and still is, happening in the Gulf. With the reporting tool we developed, volunteers can easily submit geo-tagged pollution reports complete with photo and video uploads. Hopefully these reports will ensure that those responsible will pay for the damage that has been caused. Some notes about the site.
- Reports near each other are clustered together on a "nearby" view, available from every report page.
- Map icons are customized based on the status of a site, E.g., impacted by oil.
- The site uses a new version of the Drupal Mapstraction module, which I maintain.
- Videos are uploaded to YouTube directly via the video upload module.
Big thanks to ThinkShout, my partner on the project, for brining it my way and the incredible hard work and devotion he demonstrated.