Inspiration
As a transfer student, it was hard to find my way around the campus, even with the help of Google Maps. As a result, I teamed up with my friend to create a tool that would help other UMD students to find their way around campus so that they can save time.
What it does
UMD Maps 2.0 takes in your course schedule as input and outputs a Google Maps route to help you get from class to class in a quick and easy manner.
How we built it
This app uses Python, Streamlit, umd.io API, Google Maps API, Git, Github, and VS Code Liveshare
Challenges we ran into
While building this app, we realized that there were a lot of gaps in the database for the umd.io API and also, the documentation was not the clearest. However, we were able to troubleshoot our way through these bugs, partially with the help of the mentors!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This was the first time that we built a web app and worked with multiple APIs.
What we learned
We learned about using multiple APIs and how they interact with each other. We also learned how to embed files on our web app.
What's next for UMD Maps 2.0
We hope to move into the backend and implement a login feature and save your course data for future use.
Built With
- git
- github
- google-maps
- html5
- python
- streamlit
- umd.io
- vscode
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