EDUdine
OHI/O 2015 Hackathon Project - comprehensive OSU dining database website
Team
- Nick Flint - @tallsmallone - Electrical Engineering Major
- Cailin Pitt - @CailinPitt - Computer Science Engineering Major
- Stephen Wu - @wustep - Computer Science Engineering Major
Description
EDUdine is a OHI/O '15 project creating a prototype for a comprehensive dining database, particularly for Ohio State University BuckID merchants and dining services.
- Places are scrapped by Ruby and recorded in a SQL database, storing:
- Address, hours, menu and website links, geographic location (longitude, latitude)
- Type(s) of dining service (Swipes, Meal Exchange, Dining Dollars, and BuckID)
- Tag(s) (American, Ethnic, Dessert, Pizza/Pasta, Gluten-Free, etc.).
- Users can click on dining tags or types to sort by them, as well as search by name and tag.
Notes
- The current maps implementation is not recommended for long-term use. Google Maps isn't meant to load multiple locations from addresses!
- Longitude and latitude should be stored in the database (under "geo") and then used to place markers on the map.
- Hours for most BuckID vendors was not completed in time. Menu links were also not scraped.
- Dining service types were aggregated for BuckID and Dining Dollars, but not Meal Exchange and Swipes.
Expansion
Posible expansion plans could include:
- Google Places integration
- User system: reviews, ratings, tags, suggestions, etc.
- List or map to show nearby open places (possibly based on user preferences)
- Function to see if a place is already open, and don't display those locations by default