SF Pipeline roadmap

Future work on SF Pipeline will be heavily influenced by feature requests and feedback from users. If you would like to see the site improve in a particular way, please send me an email message at ryantate@ryantate.com!

I already have some ideas on how SF Pipeline will evolve. The beta release of the site, May 17, 2007, came before I could implement all of the features I would ultimately like to see in the application. A basic outline of where I see things going follows below.

Again, this is only a rough guide.

Next release

• Advanced Search
  • Filter by completion date
  • Filter dates within range
  • Filter by developer, owner, manager
  • Filter by size
    • Housing units
    • Hotel units
    • Leasable square feet (office, retail, industrial)
    • Height (in feet, floors)
• Attach photos to projects

Two or three releases away

• Oakland and other cities (East Bay, Peninsula)
• Checkbox to show only projects since last visit
• API
• Special markers and auto-opened info windows for significant new projects since your last visit
• More unit tests (internal)
• Email editor(s) when new project, update or news submitted (internal)
• Smarter handling of duplicate news links (internal)

More than three releases away

• Track project architects, general contractors, engineers
• Track project cost
• Slider controls!
  • Dates
  • Size
  • Cost
  • Height
• Remember visitor name/email for submission forms
• Smarter and shorter tab labels for addresses with multiple projects
• Experiment with JSON in SCRIPT SRC for possible speed improvement
• Smarter project and update approval pages (internal)