Project Proposal

Background and Purpose

In light of recent protests and the increased participation in the Black Lives Matter Movement, we want to create an interactive map of small, black-owned and POC-owned businesses in New York City to allow users to easily find ways to shop small and support POC businesses near them.

Plan

We are using data from NYC Open Data, Open Source Excel sheets shared on various websites, and the Google Maps API to plot businesses on an interactive map.

Self Building Aspect

Users of the application can give names to unnamed small businesses (not named on NYC Open data)

Tags and photos

Users will be able to give certain tags and attribute certain photos and comments to the businesses

Deployment Steps

1. First clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/KathyLau/shop-poc

2. Make sure you have python and pip installed
3. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run flask app

python app.py

5. Go on https://127.0.0.1:5000 !

Example

Team Members

Kathy Lau and Doria Chen