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Welcome to the attend-o-matic wiki!

Attend-o-matic is intended to help elementary school districts better manage their attendance boundaries. The key goal is to minimize the total commute across all students who attend schools within the district.

Attend-o-matic will:

• provide an objective basis to start the conversation about attendance boundaries
• provide a clear visual representation of which students would attend which schools
• take as inputs:
  • an arbitrary set of school locations in longitude/latitude format
  • an arbitrary set of home addresses in longitude/latitude format along with number if children and grade level
• produce as outputs:
  • a google map showing which school each home is allocated to
  • for a tutorial on creating maps and setting markers using javascript, start here

Pre- and Post-Processing Tools Required

• It will be possible to use Google Geocoding to convert street addresses into longitude/latitude format (2,500 per day for free)