Winter Watch

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Inspiration

Just a couple days ago I wanted to drive to my girlfriends house but I found it hard to determine if the roads would be icy and safe to drive on. Here in Vancouver it has been around -10C recently and just snowed. When I saw the Winter Theme I knew I had to make something to help determine the safety during the winter.

What it does

Winter Watch is a website that allows your experience in the winter and snow to be pleasant and safe.

Winter Watch uses Google's free Maps API, this allows for searching and display of any location dynamically.

It then fetches the desired locations data and information from OpenWeatherMap API.

How we built it

Winter Watch uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for frontend. For the backend it uses Python and Flask and Version Control was done through Git.

Challenges we ran into

I ran into a lot of problems connecting the front end and back end and displaying the information dynamically. Every time I fixed one thing and different thing broke.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

To be able to say that our project can have an impact on people through preparation and awareness in the winter. Using Winter Watch you could save people from injury, expenses, and even death.