Inspiration
The inspiration came from one of our friends experiencing food poisoning after eating an established restaurant. We wanted to make it more accessible for people to check health inspection grades when searching for restaurants on Google Maps.
What it does
FoodInspect fetches data from the DOHMH New York City Restaurant Inspection Results dataset from NYC Open Data. When looking at any restaurant on Google Maps that has a inspection result, the grade will show up next to the name of the restaurant. The inspection grade changes if there is a new inspection record posted.
How we built it
We built it on vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS and Python to manage the API endpoint.
Challenges we ran into
Challenges we ran into was trying to integrate the dataset properly into the frontend. There are many ways to implement data, but we decided to go with Soda3 API for ease of access.
What's next for FoodInspect
Future ideas include adding a map feature to track grade inspections by neighborhood, recommending alternatives for a place that has a low rating, and user reported polling data.
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