Report A Fire

Report A Fire

Inspiration

Australia has had some of the worst wildfires in recorded history, so we just wanted to build a tool to help every-day Australians get through this crisis.

What it does

Our website helps aggregate, via crowd-sourcing, crucial information about the spread of wildfires in Australia.

How we built it

We hosted a web-server using Go, and created the client-side using Google's Maps-API and a lot of JavaScript.

Challenges we ran into

A-synchronized requests between the client and server posed serious issues for this project. We attempted to simplify the relationship between the server and client as much as possible in order to resolve this issue.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The website turned out to be both incredibly simple to use, and incredibly helpful. For this, we are extremely proud.

What we learned

A lot... We worked with google's map-api for the first time. We learned a great deal about client-server interactions, and a lot of javascipt.

What's next for Report A Fire

We're going to host a website (not just locally), and possibly create a smartphone app

Built With

Submitted to

TAMUhack 2020

Created by

I did all back-end work. I also contributed quite substantially to the front end development.

jacobAlbertSchmidt Schmidt
I worked mainly on integrating the Google-maps-api into the code and figuring out how it works. While it was difficult to understand where to begin, by the end of it I understood how to use it.

Abhishek Nadiger
I came up with an idea of our team project, and I worked on the front end part. This is my first hackathon. While there were a lot of challenges, I and my team members, as a group, cooperate with each other and finally got a perfect result.

pjy4183 Park

Updates

jacobAlbertSchmidt Schmidt started this project — Jan 26, 2020 11:29 AM EST

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