Final Project Proposal

When I was originally trying to figure out what I wanted to do for my final project I was looking into creating a map that has something to do with Pinterest, since I am an avid "pinner." But while googling "pinterest maps" and "pinterest data," I found that Pinterest has boards called "Place Boards" (https://www.pinterest.com/places/examples/). This helped inspire me to pick my topic.

I recently moved to Florida this past summer, and ever since then my family and I have been exploring everything the area has to offer (which is a lot). My idea is to translate all these things into a Pinterest inspired map. It would be similar to the maps on the Pinterest website in that things would be “pinned” on the map. The user would be able to click these pins, see a picture and description of what it is, and have a website link to explore more. These pins would be sorted into categories like restaurants, entertainment, parks, etc. These categories could be clicked on and off to prevent the map from being too cluttered or to assist the user in finding something specific.

The map would encompass the Port Canaveral to Melbourne strip of the coast, including the beach side barrier islands like Cocoa and Satellite Beach. The map would start at a by showing the entire area, but then the user could click which part of the map it would like to focus on and then it would zoom in closer so that the pins would show.

I would most likely obtain my imagery from a source such as OpenStreetMap since it already has the streets on it so it would be easier to drop an exact pin location on it. My data and information about the location would most likely be obtained on the actually website of the place, and I would personally select what locations and things I would pin on the map.

An issue that I could see arising would be that the range of the map is too large. I haven’t chosen exactly what things I would like to include on the map so I can still scale the project back and ensure that I don’t take on more than I can handle in the few weeks we have to work on this.