GreenChicago.cC

Purpose

How does one easily live a sustainable lifestyle in Chicago? Although resources exists, they are sporatic and isolated. This app seeks to create a centralized resource to enable residents within Chicago to find resources like electric vehicle charging stations, farmers markets, parks and more in a single location.

Functionality Summary:

• On page load, pending browser settings, app will pinpoint user location (or be asked)
• Zip search is limited to Chicago zips only. (60601 or 60614 as a couple of good examples to change point of reference.)
• The menu on the left will retrieve data and add markers on Google map
• Each data set has a custom pin
• Each data marker will show an info window on click displaying data for that location, which is dynamically added to each marker on data load.
• Weather is real-time and based on either Chicago or user location(not what I worked on, so I don’t recall exactly).

Technology and Languages Used

• Languages

  • HTML
  • Bootstrap w/ CSS3 Customizations
  • Javascript / jQuery

• APIs Used

  • Google Maps API
  • Open Weather API
  • Chicago Data Portal
    • Green Roofs
    • Farmers Markets
    • Parks
  • NREL API for EV Charging Stations
  • Divvy Bike Share

• Database / JSON

  • Firebase

Link to App

(https://contrapuntist.github.io/GreenChicago.cC/ "Link to app")

Development Team

• Josh Miller
• Miguel Cano
• Luc Fewer II
• Amanda Gault
• Gowri Rajasekaran