Conscious Camper

Inspiration

Being trapped inside for so long due to quarantine has not been fun. When our team saw the theme was “camping” we got excited to take everyone on a virtual outdoor journey-- and what better way to do that than to promote environmental friendliness at the same time!

What it does

Conscious Camper is a platform that is mutually beneficial for both campers and nature alike. You can search any location in the world and it will approximate how good it is for camping based on environmental statistics (Air quality, Humidity, Temperature, etc). It also has facts and tips for being more environmentally friendly in your day-to-day life.

How we built it

Utilizing Google’s Street View and Autocomplete API, we were able to fully embed a dynamic panoramic view of any location in Google's extensive map database. We take the location's geometry and pass it through another API to get statistics about the environment in that area. With this data, we use a machine learning model to predict how good this area may be for camping.

Challenges we ran into

Just about everything you can think of (CSS classes misspelled, js console logs fixing stuff, couldn’t center a div for three hours, etc). No one on our team has ever done something with this much scope in such little time. Nonetheless, we powered through and were able to deliver something we were all happy with.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Machine Learning model with relatively decent implementation.

What we learned

We learned a lot about react functional components, managing multiple API calls between the front-end and back-end, and that machine learning models need a ton of data to learn from!