Inspiration
I always say that I want to go hiking more often, but I also always feel unsure about whether I am good enough for a certain path, what I should wear, what equipment I should bring, how to evaluate weather forecasts at that altitude, what time should I leave from home and so on. Knowing that the mountain also brings some risks if you underestimate some dangers, I always feel quite insecure.
What it does
TheSwissHiker is a webapp that will serve as a tutor for packing and planning your hike! Set the location (either from the map or by the locality name) of the track that you want to go to, and fill info about your skill level, age, sportiness and track difficulty. Given these info, the app will check all sort of relevant weather information in that area, pinpointing the most relevant informations that you should be aware of. Moreover, the app will provide you with a personalized list of tools that you should put in the bag, based on the experience of the user and the weather conditions. For any special need, there is a chat bot that is ready to answer your questions! Finally, the app will provide a few metrics regarding the dangerousness of the area in terms of extreme climate conditions. This is paired with a dedicated section that tries to motivate obtained results based on high level knowledge of the interested area. Unfortunately, given the limited time and human resources, I was not able to train a model for estimating risk levels for weather hazards. Therefore, in this demo there is no correlation between existing data and predicted values.
Built With
- apertus
- express.js
- react
