Management information system
Forms, maps, surveys and search for a government client
138 → 43
Forms, after the duplicates were designed out.
The problem
138 separate forms had accumulated, and they overlapped. The same facts were being collected several times over, which is irritating for the person filling them in and worse for anyone trying to trust the result afterwards.
What I built
- A dynamic form tool — forms defined as data rather than built one by one. 138 collapsed into 43, with duplicate entry eliminated rather than merely discouraged.
- An interactive map showing where projects intersect geographically, so overlaps are seen instead of discovered.
- A real-time survey system for collecting feedback and reporting on it as it arrives.
- Search and reporting across the whole dataset, for retrieval in seconds.
Why it mattered
Consolidating forms is unglamorous work that nobody puts on a slide. It is also the single change that removed the most wasted human time of anything I have shipped.
- Layers
- Interface, API, data model, geospatial visualization, search
- Role
- Full stack developer, Spitamen-IT
- Year
- 2023 onward