Never be alone with Emergent 911's Neighborhood Map!
Welcome to my Neighborhood Map Project! Udacity has challenged me to piece together a website that utilizes Google Maps and at least one other location-based API. Of course, given my venturous coder mentality, I had to take one for the team and accept the challenge!
For my project, I have chosen to intertwine Google Maps' JavaScript API with Foursquare's Search For Venues API in order to create am application that showcase hospitals 🏥 and police stations 🚔 in or nearby McDonough, Georgia.
This application allows you to easily search for a nearby hospital or police station. Not sure of where to start? No worries because a list of all the local police stations and hospitals are listed in the app!
If you select a location in the list, you'll be able to see exactly where it's located, and in some cases, you'll be able to see the phone number for the site--props to Foursquare API for that!
Now, you may be wondering what Emergent 911 has to do with any of this. I'm currently in the process of developing a text-to-911 app called Emergent 911, and one of the features of the app is that it will not only be able to tell you exactly where you are located, but it will also tell you which hospitals and police stations are closest to you.
So you know when Udacity asked me to create a neighborhood map project, there was no way I could resist paying homage to Emergent! I hope to be releasing Emergent 911 in the Google Play and Apple App Store later this year so if you are interested in receiving updates, be sure to subscribe to the Emergent 911 newsletter here: http://bit.ly/mailing_e911!
Now, I know you're salivating over the thought of seeing this Neighborhood Map! And luckily for you, it's easier than making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
- You can click here to access the site: http://bit.ly/fend-map-project. If you want to put in the work, though, head on over to Alianza's Github so you can clone or download this repository. Once you've done this, select the
index.htmlfile to open up the website! - Click on any of the places on the map or the list for more information
- If you have a place in mind, feel free to utilize the search bar to filter out places!
- Thought it couldn't get any better than this? It can! This site is responsive so feel free to access it on your mobile devices for a whole new feel!