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WhereToMeet
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Result of top 3 most convenient locations
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Adding the Bot to group
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Starting a session in the group
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Mall or MRT?
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Send join to join the current session in the group!
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Bot will pm you to prompt you for location after you join
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Sending your location
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Send go in the group to calculate top 3 convenient locations!
Inspiration
Ever faced situations where you are consistently travelling further than your friends for a meetup? Fret not, as WhereToMeetBot aims to establish equality for all friends! Our main inspiration was that we found it difficult to meet up with friends and settle on a convenient location.
What it does
WheretoMeet is a telegram bot that allows you to find the top 3 most convenient locations (either Mall or MRT) for you and your friends to meet up. Using a minimax algorithm, WheretoMeet will ensure that the meetup location is not too far for any person as it tries to minimize the maximum distance for each person.
How we built it
We wrote the bot using python and the telegram API. Data processing of the list of shopping malls and MRT stations were done using CSV files and the pandas python library.
Challenges I ran into
One of the challenges we faced was the absence of an existing database of shopping malls longitude and latitude in Singapore. As a result, we had to construct and build our own database.
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