We were inspired from how Google and Apple Maps sometimes provide you routes that could be considered dangerous/unsafe specially during the night time. We wanted to create something that would allow you to travel with peace of mind about your surroundings.
## What it does
It basically creates hot points in locations were an individual would consider something to be unsafe and redirects to a different route. People can also report points or areas they are in that they would consider to be unsafe, further adding onto the map.
## How we built it
We built it by using the programming languages HTML and C++ along with using several different API's such as OPENROUTESERVICES which give us a system to give us directions and along with giving us the geo code which converted the address into coordinates. Using it's function avoid we made it so it was able to re routes.
## Challenges we ran into
Some challenges we ran into was finding data for the points and the gps would bug out sometimes which still pose an issue. You can't add more then 100 points before it starts crashing. A challenge we ran into but managed to solve was finding a replace for Google maps API. We had to replace it due to it costing money for everytime use. We aren't trying to monetize this and make money so we found a replacement for it called OPENROUTESERVICES.
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of finishing it and it most working.
## What we learned
We learnt on the spot teamwork, with each of us not knowing each other prior to OCSEFhackaton.
## What's next for SafeNav
Making it more phone accessible, along with a feature to have show directions like Google maps. Also making it outreach more as currently its more locally. We also plan to tweak a few features on the program, making it being able to actually read information from websites, and not crash as easliy.
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