ShortCut

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  The red regions depicting unsafe path

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  The map with the walking paths

Inspiration

A passion to help improve the lives of those with disabilities so that they can live with more freedom and go about their lives with ease.

What it does

• It allows the user to enter their destination and find the most accessible route.
• Present all the important data regarding their destination such as the time it would take to reach and possible obstacles they could face.
• Mark uneven or paved roads as unsafe on the map.
• Gives details such as the number of elevators, automatic doors and ramps.
• It takes feedback and ratings from the user regarding buildings and routes to improve the app.

How we built it

• we used vertica's simple hackathon template to implement our user feedback database.
• combined it with flask to create html pages.
• used maps API for the program.

Challenges we ran into

• Combining our Maps API with the python code
• getting information from the HTML form to our database

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Making a difference in the lives of people with disabilities.
• Offering users the ability to provide feedback about locations
• Displaying the user generated content on the screen. (By using Vertica)

What we learned

• How to use sql
• How to include APIs
• How to use JavaScript efficiently

What's next for ShortCut

• We'll work on combining our website code with the app to create a more user friendly interface.
• We plan to include wearable device compatibility, so that the user can get an alert about any accessibility issues by their geo-location.
• Expand it to more locations beyond the Wellesley campus.

Built With

• api
• css
• html
• python
• sql
• vertica