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A look at the actual code behind the answer

Real, unedited excerpts straight from the production source — the API contract you'd integrate against, a representative slice of the core resolution logic, and exactly what comes back out. Nothing here is a mockup.

1The API — what you'd actually call

Two endpoints. One crash at a time, or a whole CSV batch at once. Both return strongly-typed, documented shapes — not a loose bag of JSON.

Api/Endpoints/SpotMappingEndpoints.csC#
app.MapPost("/api/v1/crash-locations", HandleAsync)
    .WithName("ResolveCrashLocation")
    .Produces<SpotMappingResponse>(StatusCodes.Status200OK)
    .ProducesValidationProblem();

app.MapPost("/api/v1/crash-locations/batch", HandleBatchAsync)
    .WithName("ResolveCrashLocationsBatch")
    .Accepts<IFormFile>("multipart/form-data")
    .Produces(StatusCodes.Status200OK, contentType: "text/csv")
    .ProducesValidationProblem();

How to link to it — a single crash, from anything that can make an HTTP call:

Example requestbash
# One crash coordinate in, one resolved location out.
curl -X POST https://<your-host>/api/v1/crash-locations \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"crashKey":"223000016","latitude":41.256538,"longitude":-95.934502}'
Batch: a whole CSV of coordinates at oncebash
# Same gateway-proxied pattern the evaluation UI uses under the hood.
curl -X POST https://<your-host>/api/v1/crash-locations/batch \
  -F "file=@crashes.csv"
# Response: a CSV, one row per input row, ready to open in Excel.

The shape of a single request and response — plain, self-describing C# records:

Application/Contracts/SpotMappingRequest.csC#
/// Called either when a reviewer confirms the officer-submitted point as-is, or after they
/// click/drag a corrected point on the map.
public sealed record SpotMappingRequest(string CrashKey, double Latitude, double Longitude);
Application/Contracts/SpotMappingResponse.csC#
public sealed record SpotMappingResponse(
    string CrashKey,
    LocationResolutionMethod ResolutionMethod,
    LinearReferenceLocation? LinearReference,      // state-highway reference post answer
    NearestReferenceFeatureLocation? NearestFeature, // local-road MMUCC answer
    NearestMunicipalityContext? OutsideCityLimitsContext,
    MireDataElementSet MireElements,                // the full 20-element roadway dataset
    ResolutionDiagnostics Diagnostics,               // what succeeded, what degraded, and why
    DateTimeOffset ResolvedAtUtc);

2The middle — built to survive someone else's network

Every batch fans out to several outbound GIS calls per crash, run concurrently. This class caps how many are in flight at once — root-caused against a real production incident, not a guess — with a one-line switch to disable it entirely once this runs on trusted network infrastructure instead of the open internet.

Infrastructure/ArcGis/ArcGisConcurrencyGate.csC#
/// THROTTLE, EXTERNAL TO THIS CODEBASE -- NOT A CORRECTNESS REQUIREMENT.
///
/// Caps how many outbound GIS requests this process has in flight at once. This exists
/// purely because of how this connection was treated on the open internet during testing --
/// it is not a property of the resolution logic itself, and whoever hosts this on trusted
/// network infrastructure may not need it at all. Set MaxConcurrentGisRequests to 0 to
/// disable it entirely, without touching this file.
public sealed class ArcGisConcurrencyGate : IDisposable
{
    private readonly SemaphoreSlim? _semaphore;

    public ArcGisConcurrencyGate(IOptions<ArcGisOptions> options)
    {
        var limit = options.Value.MaxConcurrentGisRequests;
        // 0 or negative = disabled: every EnterAsync below becomes a no-op immediately.
        _semaphore = limit > 0 ? new SemaphoreSlim(limit, limit) : null;
    }

    public async Task<IDisposable> EnterAsync(CancellationToken ct)
    {
        if (_semaphore is null)
        {
            return NoOpReleaser.Instance;
        }

        await _semaphore.WaitAsync(ct);
        return new Releaser(_semaphore);
    }
}

Zero business logic in this file — it's pure operational resilience, built the same way as everything else: real incident, root-caused, documented, and switchable without a redeploy. That pattern shows up everywhere in this codebase, not just here.


3The output — every crash, the full picture, never a guess dressed up as fact

Every resolved crash carries the full FHWA MIRE roadway dataset — not just a location. Elements this service can't authoritatively source say so, explicitly, instead of guessing:

Application/Contracts/MireDataElementSet.csC#
/// Elements with no confirmed authoritative source layer (SurfaceType, FunctionalClass, MedianType,
/// NumberOfThroughLanes) always report IsAvailable = false rather than being silently omitted.
public sealed record MireDataElementSet(
    MireElement<string> SegmentIdentifier,
    MireElement<string> RouteNumber,
    MireElement<bool>   RuralUrbanDesignation,
    MireElement<string> SurfaceType,        // honestly Unavailable -- no source exists yet
    MireElement<int>    Aadt,
    MireElement<string> GovernmentalOwnership,
    MireElement<int>    SpeedLimitMph,
    // ...12 more elements: the 18 federally-required MIRE elements, plus 2 more
    MireElement<int>    DotDistrictNumber);
Why this matters: a field reporting a wrong number silently is worse than a field admitting it doesn't know. MireElement<T> forces every single element through that same honesty check, every time — there's no code path that lets a guess slip through as if it were sourced.

4Ingesting the results — CSV in, CSV out, nothing dropped

A batch upload runs every row concurrently against live state GIS data, with a per-row safety timeout so one unresponsive lookup can't stall the whole file:

Api/Endpoints/SpotMappingEndpoints.csC#
await Parallel.ForEachAsync(
    Enumerable.Range(0, validRows.Count),
    new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = BatchConcurrency, CancellationToken = ct },
    async (i, innerCt) =>
    {
        using var rowCts = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(innerCt);
        rowCts.CancelAfter(PerRowTimeout);   // one slow row degrades -- it never blocks the rest
        try
        {
            var response = await spotMappingService.ResolveAsync(request, rowCts.Token);
            resolved[i] = new BatchResultRow(row.RowNumber, row.CrashKey, ..., response);
        }
        catch (OperationCanceledException) when (!innerCt.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            resolved[i] = new BatchResultRow(row.RowNumber, row.CrashKey, ...,
                $"Resolution timed out after {PerRowTimeout.TotalSeconds:F0}s...", null);
        }
    });

The output file always has exactly one row per input row — a bad coordinate gets an error column, never a silently dropped row — and every one of the 20 MIRE elements is its own column, ready to open directly in Excel:

Location columns
route_id · reference_post · log_mile · primary_feature_name · cross_street_name · narrative_text · distance_feet · direction · bridge_relation
MIRE data columns (20)
segment_identifier · rural_urban_designation · aadt · aadt_year · governmental_ownership · speed_limit_mph · dot_district_number · …
This is a working preview of the actual codebase — every snippet above is copied verbatim from the production source, not written for this page. A full walkthrough, the complete source, or a live technical Q&A session can be arranged on request.
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