Relief Grid

Inspiration

In the heart of crises, delayed aid can cause unimaginable human suffering, which is easily preventable.

What it does

Solve the problem of resource tracking and management for organizations helping people in natural disasters

How we built it

We used HTML, JavaScript, CSS with OpenStreetMap

Challenges we ran into

One major challenge we encountered was deciding the scope of our project. We put in a majority of our time brainstorming ideas which would be both effective and feasible to complete. Although this let us decide on a project that allowed us to demonstrate the best of our capabilities, if we had managed our time better, we could have spent more time developing the final product.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of getting certain complex components of our project to work. Namely, filtering stations by radius, user interface, and implementing OpenStreetMap API.

What we learned

We have learned that we should've conducted more research before implementing major features. Specifically, we tried to work with Firebase using only JavaScript for the back-end, but we realized that the former was meant to be used in conjunction with Node.js.