Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

COVID-19 Infection Hotspot Notifier

Summary

Our project is intended to notify users when they approach geographical locations with high recorded COVID-19 infection rates. It maintains real time location tracking with a mobile phone's GPS and compares it to values in a collected database of infection hotspot location and intensity. It will allow users to avoid such areas, especially if they are high risk patients.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project addresses the challenge by making COVID-19 hotspot location maps more accessible for common users and allowing them to identify areas of high risk without needing to manage the information themselves. Many web visualizers are not constructed on platforms that are easily navigable on mobile platforms, so our project may ease that load some as well.

How We Developed This Project

We constructed this project using the Dart framework Flutter in VSCode with its intended plugins to export an Android application. Neither team member had ever used Dart before, and one hadn't ever used Javascript, so much of the development process was spent learning the intricacies of a language we were greatly unfamiliar with.

Completing the initial Google Maps functionality was a huge achievement, as we were both new to mobile app development, but the time spent after trying to integrate it with a real time location tracker was a much greater challenge than initially anticipated.

Project Demo

https://i.postimg.cc/gJGXqTvH/Screenshot-20200531-223055.jpg

Data & Resources

John's Hopkins Infection Hotspot location data
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Tags
#land, #zoning, #covid
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.