Nature AWareness TY

An app that recommends recreational locations for you to visit and tells you the amount of people there

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The video demo in the link is cut off, to watch the second half of the demo for the app, the rest of the video demo can be found here: https://youtu.be/hWmlBDbckZs . Sory for the inconvenience.

Inspiration

The challenge we face during this time of COVID-19 is that people must socially distance when outdoors or stay indoors to reduce the spread. However there is currently no way to tell if outdoor recreational locations are at maximum capacity, and virtual tours are not yet optimized for group gatherings and exploration. We wanted to create an app that shows your location on the map and recommends parks nearby based on the amount of people who are currently there.

What it does

A map app that allows you to see parks in the US and Canada. It opens up to your location. Your location is indicated with a green house marker.

How I built it

It was built using react.

Challenges I ran into

We originally had planned a lot of features and realized that we would not be able to implement it all in time so we picked and decided to go with the map feature to code. It was a lot more difficult than we originally had anticipated.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are proud that we got together to try and build this thing even if it did not work out the way we wanted it to work out!

What I learned

We initially spent our time after our first meeting split up and working on different components until we had a talk with the mentors and realized we needed a minimum viable product. We learned that building a hack during a hackathon requires an iterative process where we should get a prototype up and running and add more features on top of the already working initial prototype. We spent our time building various things and lost time because we could not figure out a way to link each feature together. Overall we had fun getting together to try and build something!

What's next for Nature AWareness TY

Adding live data to our app and figuring out a way to use web scraping to automatically gather park data and coordinates.

Demo 2

Topic: Tejan Devang Gandhi's Personal Meeting Room Date: May 24, 2020 07:14 PM India

Meeting Recording: https://umd.zoom.us/rec/share/59NVIpHezEZOTKvA1HHWe54FRbzoaaa80CNI-_cKzUdKdy4UtZJaETql8cfP3KxI

Access Password: 2e^=Lq$P

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