Disaster Map

Self-reporting map platform to collect information about spread, intensity of crisis like pandemic, natural disaster.

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Inspiration

I work for one of the largest healthcare providers in North America. We have experienced that getting accurate data during the crisis is always a pain point for the authorities or crisis management agencies. For example- During the early phase of Covid-19, there was very limited data available about the distribution of the spread and it was completely missing for mild symptoms or the number of testing kits required for each city, county etc. This app can help healthcare providers, local governments and crisis management agencies by providing the most up to date data.

What it does

Any user can add a marker on the map with one the attribute of the crisis. e.g. for Covid-19 the markers would be need testing, mild symptoms, severe symptoms, recovered, etc. For privacy purposes, the app scrambles the user location randomly in a 1-mile radius.

How I built it

Frontend- React, Backend-AWS Serverless. I used aws Amplify for quick integration and authentication.

Challenges I ran into

The application needs to access user location via a browser. Due to security restrictions in browsers, the website needs to be an HTTPS. Setting up the SSL certs, https, etc was a little challenging even with AWS due to poor documentation.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Production-ready, scalable app with real time map in 2 days.

What I learned

AWS Amplify for quick integration

What's next for Disaster Map

  • Federated signIn and signup using google, facebook sign in.
  • Add multiple crises and their attributes e.g. natural disasters etc.
  • Upload bulk datasets from authorities/hospitals
  • Custom Dashboards and analytics
  • Marker Clustering and real time marker data
  • Search/Filter
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