Her Route

Her Route assists women by finding safe walking routes through unfamiliar areas utilizing crime data with a powerful pathfinding algorithm, elevating individual safety through data-driven insights.

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Inspiration

We were driven to create her route by the clear need to improve women's safety while travelling on foot. Concerns about harassment and assault, especially at night, are a daily reality for many women.

What it does

  • Crime-Aware Route Planning: Utilizes real crime data from The Gun Violence Archive and ACLED to determine the safest walking routes.
  • User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design for easy navigation and route customization.
  • Customizable Preferences: Users can tailor route preferences based on their comfort level and specific safety concerns.
  • Optimized for Vulnerable Individuals: Specifically developed to address the safety concerns of individuals who may feel more vulnerable while walking.

How we built it

  • HTML and JavaScript: The core development languages ensuring a responsive and dynamic user experience.
  • Data Source: The Gun Violence Archive and ACLED provide real crime data that informs route planning.
  • Visualization: Deck.GL with Google Maps Routing API was used to visually overlay crime data onto google maps.
  • Hosting: AWS is utilized to host the website.

Challenges we ran into

-Hosting: Initial configuration of our AWS instance for website hosting presented unexpected difficulties. These were successfully addressed through careful review of AWS documentation and online tutorials, resulting in a fully functional deployment.

-HTML: We ran into errors while creating visual elements on the front-end website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-Fixing AWS issues, most documentation for AWS was outdated and could not be used. Finding online tutorials helped to resolve hosting issues.

What we learned

-Hosting: Resolving the AWS configuration challenges highlighted the importance of critically evaluating official documentation and supplementing it with diverse secondary resources to effectively troubleshoot and implement solutions

What's next for Her Route

  • Address the slow speed of the site
  • Find more sources for crime data
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