Inspiration: Our inspiration comes from Dan Luscher's 15-Minute City Project where every UrbanTech service is accessible within a radius of 15 minutes.
What it does: Our main goal is to promote the idea of sustainability by limiting the amount of carbon emissions by encouraging students to walk to their destinations.
How we built it: Our website has two main pages, the first being the home page which then redirects the user to our second page which is an interactive-map. By clicking the "San Francisco" button on the home page, the user is able to access the different services labeled on the map. The user is able to click on the location markers which have a link to the respective website service. By clicking on the blue lines, the user is able to see the time it takes to walk from USF to the respective UrbanTech service.
Challenges we ran into: We did use the Google Maps Distance API originally and it worked locally, but we were not able to host it as a webapp on Glitch and PythonAnywhere. So now our website utilizes Folium which as mentioned above requires the developer to manually enter the coordinates.
What we learned/Accomplishments: As beginners we learned how to collaborate using GitHub and VScode over the course of 48-hours. We introduced ourselves to a new library called folium. As well being proud and satisfied of our end-product.
What's next for The Golden State Project: We would like to host it globally once we implement the following features. We want to expand to various college campuses in order to give everyone the same experience as our fellow Dons. We would also like to implement a Google Maps Distance API in order to have a quicker development process rather than manually entering all the coordinates for the destinations.
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