Inspiration
As a usual software engineer i've been always dreamt about space. And when we saw 'space' in list of tracks, we understood, that this is the moment we could do something awesome for the whole planet with so much data and possibilty to talk to people, which are experts in this topic and could give a lot of useful information.
What it does
This service helps people to track some kinds of catastrofes (for MVP tsunami only), and some non-commercial firms could organize volunteers to help people, that were affected by this happenings.
How we built it
A lot of discussions, agruments, problems with open API, not enough sleep, food and merchendise, but finally it works with Vue.JS on client-side and Python+Java in backend.
Challenges we ran into
It was really hard to understand the satellite's data and use it in the right way. And, of course, some little stupid troubles like typos or russian letters in URLs, not working images and fights for ports to listen between Nginx and Tomcat.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We did it! We finished the solution and we are ready to show. This is the biggest accomplishment.
What we learned
- Satellite's are awesome!
- If your server could not be reached - check URL first
- Then check, did you at least start the server
- Sometimes it's really hard to use open API.
- We need to take the course of Math in university again.
What's next for StormHub
We are going to add more catastrofes and increase precision of tracking algorithm.
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