AmElena : Elevation Based Navigation System for Amherst, MA, USA

We plan to develop a system EleNa, to tell the user a route that maximizes/minimizes the elevation within the user specified limit of the percentage of shortest path, given the start and end locations in the town of Amherst.

Set-up

Installing OSMnx, NetworkX and Geopy

with pip:

pip install osmnx, networkx, geopy

or simply run requirements.txt

Running and testing the application

Using the application

• Run start.sh to set-up the flask application.
• Head over to http://127.0.0.1:5000/client on your preferred browser to use the web interface.

Please refer to the video presentation for a simple demo involving the project know-hows and run strategies.

Testing

• To run the tests run python test/test.py from the home directory.
• Manual UI testing available in UI_tests.pdf

Learnings

Design Principles

• Open/Closed principle : Used config.py to set configurable parameters eg. API key, map center etc.

Design Patterns

• Factory pattern : to set distance metric ie either Haversine(default), Manhattan or Eucliedean
• Strategy pattern : to choose different algorithms i.e Djisktra or A-star algorithm

Please refer to the video presentation

Contributors

• Ankita Naik
• Apurva Swarnakar
• Prabodh Shetty
• Saurabh Kumar Shashidhar
• Shezan Rohinton Mirzan