Otter be Active

We all 'otter be more active!

Otter be Active is a hackathon project for Otter Hacks 2017, created over the span of 36 hours with Apache Cordova, Material Design, Bootstrap, and the Google Maps API.

Check us out at https://otterbeactive.com (sponsored by Domain.com)

Inspiration

We were inspired by Earth Day and decided to create something green. So we made an app that got users out into nature.

What it does

Otter be Active is a web and mobile application that encourages users to get out more. Once installed, the app runs in the background, occassionally notifying the user with nearby opportunities to explore the area around them. We recommmend parks, hiking trails, and otter interesting places within reasonable walking distance, and if the user chooses to act on it, reward them with prestiege.

How we built it

We used Node.JS and Apache Cordova to implment a cross platform mobile and web application. Our frontend incorporates the Material Design language and the Bootstrap framework to provide a reactive experience natively on iOS, Android, Windows, and all otter internet connected devices. The actual application uses the Cordova geolocation extension to access the device GPS location, and then processes the output of a Google Maps API call to determine the best recommendations.

Challenges we ran into

Some of our peers were new with coding and progams, which caused a delay and was slow procces to complate parts of the app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

we are pround to create this app that will bring people together and will take them on adventures to our well presurved parks and inlighten them about the parks.