GDG held their DevFest Season 2016 and I was helping to facilitate the hackathon that they had. We tried to focus on some social good apps and the winner was one trying to map open burning areas with crowd soured reporting while the runner up had to do with image processing via a phone to recognise sign language gestures.
I also managed to squeak some time to pull off a hack of my own by mapping the Shell Petrol/Gas stations in Brunei
- Web app: https://thewheat.github.io/brunei-map-petrol/
- Code Repository: https://github.com/thewheat/brunei-map-petrol/
Steps detailed here
- Essentially based off an older project mapping mosques https://bruneigeekmeet.com/masjid/
- Hackathon dealt with just extracting the necessary data to put on a map
- Source data via BSM website
- Location data initially extracted from unzipping this Brunei Petrol Station Android app but found some missing data and thus post-event, manually created a map of all stations
- Post hackathon worked on
- enabling a search based on facilities
- searching based on opening hours
- finding closest based on driving distance and time via Google’s Distance Matrix
- added images/icons for apps via http://www.favicomatic.com/ and manually added those for social media sharing
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