Covid tracker

Inspiration :

Covid has impacted a huge population and also the work-life of millions. Our idea is to help travelers and truck drivers who travel day-in and day-out, Which has become difficult because of the pandemic.

As long-haul truck drivers spend many hours alone in the cab of the truck. However, there are times when drivers will be at increased risk of exposure to COVID-19. For long-haul truck drivers, potential sources of exposure include having close contact with truck stop attendants, store workers, dock workers, other truck drivers, or others with COVID-19, and touching your nose, mouth, or eyes after contacting surfaces touched or handled by a person with COVID-19. We have designed an app for them to have knowledge about how the virus is at the destination location and take necessary precautions.

What it does :

Tracks the number of COVID cases across the US. Prompts the user about the number of cases and sends notifications if the destination location is safe to travel to or not In the screenshots attached We have COVID 19 data for each state in the US. The data is shown in the form of a table. For each, we showed confirmed cases. The data under the confirmed column in red is the total no. of cases that were confirmed today. If the API does not have any particular data we displayed it as NA.

How we built it :

->Scripting languages used for developing the web application. HTML, PHP, Java Script ->Brief Technical Description of how we developed the US heat map. ->We used Google Geo charts to show the heat map. In order to use Google Geo charts, an API key needs to be provided. The key is generated at www.console.cloud.google.com. The numbers are taken from the Covid tracker API (https://api.covidtracking.com/v1/states/current.json ). The code to load the map is in javascript and HTML.

Challenges we ran into :

Finding a trustworthy public API that gives accurate information about the number of cases. Adding a US heat map to the web page. Lack of sleep limited time