hurricane-evac

Purpose: Hurricane Evac determines if hurricane evacuation is possible from a user-inputted location, and provides recommended next steps.

Front end (HTML, CSS, JS)

• Home page: Description, button leading to application
• Google Maps API to display a map of user area
• My Maps overlay consisting of evacuation routes in Collier County, Florida
• Evacuation Info button for pop-up recommendations

Back end (Python with Flask and various libraries, MongoDB)

• Python with Pandas and BeautifulSoup for web scraping National Hurricane Center website
• Python with various mathematical libraries for calculating hurricane trajectory from discrete data points, and determining whether evacuation is necessary
• Flask framework and AJAX calls to link front-end JS and back-end Python scripts
• MongoDB for storing and retrieving custom evacuation routes