Inspiration Our project was inspired by the Queer Map, which an interactive map of the world where each point on the map is linked to a message written by an anonymous user. Our version is not necessarily centralized around the queer community, it is made such that people (young and old) from all around the world can share anonymously messages in the hopes to keep people more informed on what is going on in the world.
What it does Our code asks for the user's input for latitude, longitude (for the coord. of the point) and the message the user wants to submit. It then takes in that input and releases the map with every message every written by others, and updated with their own.
How we built it We built our code (in Python) using the plotly library (for the map) and using Flask and a template to get the user's input and collect it.
Challenges we ran into Since this was our first hackathon, we faced many challenges. First of all, we had to get familiar with completely new libraries and editors, that we had never used before. We also weren't familiar with Flask, and web development in general.
Accomplishments that we're proud of We are just proud of the amount we learn and how much we covered given that this is our first semester as engineering students. Throughout this hackathon, we were adaptable, and we're able to research and learn new things every time things didn't work out as planned.
What we learned On top of the technical aspect of things, we learned how to manage our time a little bit better, and what a hackathon was actually!
What's next for Messages around the World We still wang to update many things on our code. First of all, it would be important to make sure that the map pops up like it should. It would also be interesting for the user to only have to input his/her location and not longitude and latitude, for example by clicking on the map (it would then be our goal to find the correspond latitude and longitudes).
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