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Tourists and travelers find themselves in dangerous situations due to a lack of information. Finch provides the ability to report a dangerous situation to other users, giving users a safer route.

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Inspiration

Tourists and travelers find themselves in potentially dangerous situations due to a lack of information. It's a scenario we've all heard of, and it's one we're dedicated to changing. Specifically the 2015 Waze app case in Brazil, where a group of tourists ended up in a favela being tragically killed.

What it does

Finch provides the ability to report a dangerous situation on a map, so other users can avoid the area when trying to get somewhere.

How we built it

We used Go's standard library to serve HTML templates over an HTTP server and the Google Maps API. We also used PostgreSQL as our database (running with docker) and TailwindCSS for our styling.

Challenges we ran into

Merge issues lost us time and we couldn't deploy our service on time. We still hope to finish our project after the event.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Providing a correctly calculated route avoiding a dangerous area.

What we learned

We learned Go and TailwindCSS for easy server side rendering.

What's next for Finch

Finishing the training of our machine learning model to learn over time which areas are dangerous in what times.

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