Paul Bailey
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# Product Overview
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Litter Scouts is a crowdsourced environmental monitoring web application for Irish coastal areas. It enables users to report beach litter with photos and GPS coordinates, visualize pollution patterns on interactive maps, organize cleanup events, and analyze environmental data.
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## Core Features
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- **Litter Reporting**: Submit reports with photos, GPS location, litter type categorization, and quantity estimates
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- **Interactive Mapping**: View reports on Leaflet maps with clustering, heat maps, and filtering by date/type/quantity
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- **Hotspot Analysis**: Identify high-concentration litter areas (5+ reports within 500m radius)
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- **Event Management**: Create and coordinate community cleanup events with participant registration
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- **Analytics Dashboard**: Visualize trends, statistics, and export data for research
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- **User Profiles**: Track contributions, impact scores, and personal report history
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- **Verification System**: Community-driven report verification and quality control
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- **Environmental Context**: Integrate weather, tide, and water quality data from public APIs
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## Target Users
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- Beach visitors reporting litter
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- Community organizers coordinating cleanups
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- Environmental researchers analyzing pollution patterns
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- Volunteers responding to local issues
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- Policy advocates using data for campaigns
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## Geographic Scope
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Primary focus on Irish coastal areas with coordinate validation for Irish boundaries.
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