Team Excelsior

Inspiration

Way back in 2008, my father and I travelled all the way to Chennai to buy our first MapMyIndia Navigator and had a wonderful experience of the product. This hackathon project is our attempt to honour the company and its products.

What it does

An AI based travel Itinerary that is sure to give you an adventure endemic to your location. We have used MapMyIndia's Routing, Geocoding, POI, Distance-Matrix and the Nearby API to make a web app as well as an Android app that provides users the ultimate experience of travelling with a free-mind.
The Live-Location API is used to access the current location and a preference questionnaire is filled to get recommendations from the ML model. The locations recommended are offered along with routing and efficient time management included in the AI model. The web app is hosted on an Azure server.

How we built it

We used many of MapMyIndia's APIs with a Javascript, CSS, HTML front-end and a Flask business logic for our web app and Azure to host the site
Numpy, Sklearn and Pandas for the Collaborative-Filtering recommendations
Java and Kotlin for the native Android App that does the same

Challenges we ran into

Integrating 6 APIs together to build an all-in-one product in one day led to lot of unmanageable code
Multiple APIs used led to collaborative roadblocks

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We fought through the sleep, the unreadable code, the documentation mishaps and so many more! Really proud!

What we learned

Almost everything we did today was completely new. We learnt how to pull through tough situations and also learnt a lot from our mentor. Our mentor provided us the impetus to clarify our vision and build a product that solves a real pain point. His insights were extremely valuable for us.