Inspiration
Wanted a quick map searching app that gives rich data about places nearby
What it does
Uses the Google Maps for Javascript API to find nearby restaurants, hotels and attractions and returns cards with alot of information regarding the place.
How we built it
Build on ReactJS, the app uses the Google Maps API to search for restaurants hotels and attractions within the scope of the map on the app. These coordinates covers the entire area of where the map is selected and whatever places nearby the center are rendered by passing the South West and North East coordinates of the map to achieve a grid of the map. We make an API call to grab an array of these places which contains data all about things like website, phone number, ratings etc. These pieces of data are rendered out to the cards menu to show information.
Challenges we ran into
A challenge we ran into (and unfortunately couldn't fix in time) is that our Map did not render properly.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are really proud of our persistence and how much we've accomplished. We wish we could have published a more full product but this is much more than we ever expected to do.
What we learned
We learned alot about integrating APIs and how to use the React Framework overall. This took many many hours of debugging but we are proud of the work that we have completed
What's next for Google Cloud Maps
We want to integrate more Google Cloud APIs in the future. We have an idea of using the Google Vision API on certain images with humans at restaurants and measuring their emotions as our own test metric for determining how great a restaurant is.
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