Introduction

Our project is a web application that uses Google Maps API and JavaScript in order to show places of interest in select Florida cities. This application displays a map centered on the downtown center of the selected city, and pops up the most visited and searched areas based on Google searches. Then, using these locations the application parses the data retrieved about the location and displays it in a method that is easy to read by the end user and easy to adapt for any future locations added by Google. The system currently only contains five Florida cites, but is easily scalable to any other city that is needed to be added. The system is also restricted currently to ten miles around the city center, but it can be scaled up as necessary.

Objective

The objective of our project was to generate a web-based application that:

• Easy to read
• Fetches the information in a timely manner
• Displays traffic for the selected city
• Scales easily to any other cities
• Scales up based on miles from the city center.
• Uses the Google API for maximum simplicity in future editing.
• Uses JavaScript to parse information from the API