Mitten Mover

Inspiration

DTMB posted the challenge of using a Michigan based data set so I tried to think of a way to use the GeoJSON APIs on their linked websites

Function

Prompts user for criteria such as desired distance from a state park to determine the best county for the user to live in

How it works

I used to Jquery to pull in all the state park and carpool lot objects using the Michigan GIS open data. I then pushed the latitude and longitude of these into an array to be compared to a central coordinate in each Michigan county. At the end I ran some functions to skim the list of counties in order to end up with data that consecutively met each criteria.

Problems I ran into

The search algorithm I began with was too narrow and wouldn't return any counties by the end of the specifications. I broadened the acceptable ranges to something more feasible. Also, I didn't know the state parks and carpool objects had latitude and longitude coordinates when I started out. For a while I looked into using a google API to try and search the county name and state park name to compare the distance.

I'm proud that..

I had zero experience with html and javascript prior to this. I feel I picked it up quickly enough.

I learned something

How to build a website and upload it to a domain.

If I had more time/energy

Maybe learn some css tricks so make it more aesthetically pleasing

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript
• jquery