During the COVID pandemic one of the few possible activities left was to take walks and occasionally grab a take-away coffee. To explore some new neighborhoods and coffee places I came up with the idea Coffee Walk. Based on the users location and some parameters this small web-app suggests the user a nice cafe in - hopefully - walking distance.
Opening the web-app it should look something like the screenshots in the table below.
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The web app is currently hosted on GitHub pages. It runs on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Users can adjust the search through five input parameters:
- Distance: Approximately how many minutes should the walk to the cafe take (calculated as the crow flies)?
- Open: Should the cafe be open or not?
- Secret mode: If secret mode is activated the user is only navigated to the cafe but is not shown the name.
- Suggestion: If suggestions is activated only cafes suggested by Coffee Walk are shown as results.
- Rating: User can define the minimum Google stars rating for the cafes in the result.
The app takes this 5 parameters, combines them with the users location and queries the Google Places API. If there is more than one result matching the users input a random cafe is drawn from the results. By hitting the navigation button, the app than gives the user the Google Maps pedestrian navigation to the cafe.