An android web-view application built on top of Node.JS to simplify the parking situation for Detroit residents by crowdsourcing available parking locations to ease huge wait times - a known problem. Built in partnership with the Data Driven Detroit initiative.

• Parkcore is essentially a web application built using Node.Js - served using Express, Pug and MySQL - and eventually transformed into an Android application by using Android WebView.

• Parkcore leverages the Google Maps API (Distance Matrix Services API for Node.Js, Geolocation API for Javascript) to provide real time location; reverse geolocation and best routes to available parking spots.

• Parkcore lets users :

  • mark places they vacate as available parking spots

  • look for vacant parking spots in the users' vicinity

• Parkcore ranks unoccupied parking spots on the basis of

  • time elapsed since it was marked vacated

  • time required for shortest route to it