Exposure Vic

This is a concept app that pulls data from the Victorian Government data resources to make it more accessible to where current COVID-19 exposure sites are.

What and why

When COVID-19 hit, there were so many places all trying to help people find information. Eventually in Victoria, Australia our state government had all the items in a list and webpage map.

It was a bit difficult to use on-the-go when you're trying to use a javascript map on iOS.

I decided to pull all the JSON data, configure it to be usable, and then add it into a map.

Data wrangling

Since not all the data was usable, or some of the information was not fully sanitised, and there were no longitude or latitude from the addresses I had to create the exposure-vic-api NodeJS script.

You can find the repository here if you want to see some of the javascript I used to geolocate the exposure sites using PositionStack.

Some locations had to be manually fixed.

App Store

Apple said developers can't submit COVID related apps in order to stop misinformation.

So unless you're a government account, or a health entity, this app was never going to make it.

Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage

We found in our review that your app provides services or requires sensitive user information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, services and information related to it are considered to be part of the healthcare industry. In addition, the seller and company names associated with your app are not from a recognised institution, such as a governmental entity, hospital, insurance company, non-governmental organisation, or university.