Inspiration

Unless it's playing professionally, or on a school/club team, it's often difficult for fans of pick-up sports like Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball, etc. to play a proper match. Our project aims to provide the solution to this unique, but prevalent, issue by empowering our target demographic with the tool necessary to satisfy their competitive needs; while also creating a sense of community.

What it does

RunItUp is a Interactive-Map application that enables users to locate nearby fields/courts on a live map, where each location has an event list of all scheduled/on-going matches organized by other users. Users have the ability to find areas to play, schedule events, and sign up for possible vacancies in participating teams.

Challenges we ran into

Learning how to connect multi-user functionality, to a constantly updating GUI map interface. It was quite difficult figuring how to take the data from multiple-users, and having it available on a self-updating map figure.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to use a Realtime Database to house all user input and location marker data
Making calls to an API to retrieve information and using various endpoints to streamline functionality
Developing a GUI interface and successfully connecting the Front and Back ends.

What we learned

Using Firebase to house all cached data from users, and our API
Utilizing Google's Map Platform to retrieve and populate the interactive map with location markers.
Creating a interactive GUI using TKinterMapView