Inspiration
When the shooting happened at Umpqua Community College earlier this month, I found myself searching Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to get the latest updates on the event. This constant switching between apps made me want to build a platform that allows me to see live updates from the location of the event.
What it does
The web application prompts the user to search for any location and displays a feed of recent pictures that originated from that location.
How I built it
The location input is converted into coordinates through the Google Maps API. The coordinates are then used to grab related pictures from Instagram.
Challenges we ran into
Some challenges the team faced were unfamiliarity with the MEAN stack and obtaining relevant tweets from the Twitter api.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud that the app cleanly displays relevant pictures of almost any searched location.
What I learned
I learned how to create a simple node.js server as well as how to build a web application built on angular.js.
What's next for What's Happening
What's Happening will display live tweets, facebook posts, events, and general location information in the future. The challenge is to filter these entries to provide the user with something useful about the location they are searching for. The application will be able to distinguish which events are about important surrounding events and which are not.
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