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This roadmap outlines upcoming features, improvements, and long-term goals for the Edmonton Accident & Near Miss Reporting Platform.

✅ Completed (MVP)

  • User authentication with OAuth (Google, Apple, Mastodon, BlueSky)
  • User roles (user, moderator, admin) with ban enforcement
  • Report submission (accidents & near misses) with categories, severity, photo uploads
  • OpenStreetMap with clustering of reports
  • User profiles with reports, comments, and privacy controls
  • Moderation dashboard with:
  • Pending reports queue
  • Flagged content management
  • Moderation notes and immutable logs
  • Analytics dashboard (approval/rejection rates, resolution times, trends)
  • Seed data with realistic sample reports, comments, flags, logs

🎯 Short-Term Goals

  • [ ] Add moderator performance analytics (leaderboard by actions/resolution time)
  • [ ] Implement heatmap visualization on map
  • [ ] Export moderation logs to CSV/Excel
  • [ ] Add email notifications for report approvals/rejections
  • [ ] Improve UI styling with responsive design and mobile-friendly layouts

🚀 Mid-Term Goals

  • [ ] Add multi-language support (English + French initially)
  • [ ] Implement notifications system (in-app alerts for comments, flags, moderation actions)
  • [ ] Enhance reporting form with step-by-step wizard and improved UX
  • [ ] Add batch moderation actions for efficiency
  • [ ] Introduce bulk import/export of reports for city data integration

🌐 Long-Term Vision

  • [ ] Build native mobile apps (iOS & Android) using a shared API backend
  • [ ] Integrate with city open data portals for bidirectional sharing
  • [ ] Machine learning to detect duplicate reports and spam submissions
  • [ ] Advanced analytics dashboards (heatmaps, severity over time, location clustering by type)
  • [ ] Public API for researchers and third-party integrations

📌 Contribution Guidelines

If you'd like to help with roadmap features: - Open an issue labeled roadmap with your suggestion or implementation proposal. - Coordinate with maintainers before working on larger features. - Follow CONTRIBUTING.md for coding standards and workflow.

This roadmap is a living document and will evolve with the needs of the community.