go-slothful-soda-tracker

README

Slothful Soda Tracker (Go)

###A slothy take on pizza delivery trackers ###How to install:

• Clone the project into the src directory of your GOPATH and run go install
• In views/index.html add your Google Maps API key where it says YOUR_GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY in the <script> tag for getting the Google Maps API
• Then to start the server, run go-slothful-soda-tracker and go to localhost:1123

You can also find a link to the Node.js version of this web app here.

###How to use: When you load the main page, the Google Map that appears will have a hibiscus flower on it, which is your marker. You can move your position with the W, A, S, and D keys (W = north, A = west, S = south, D = east), and your marker will move on both your screen and every other user's screen. The red Google Maps markers show the positions of all other users.

###The web app's backstory: Slothful Soda is a soda invented by sloths living at the Cambridge Fresh Pond. They invented the soda to sell to Ultimate players at parks in the Boston Area, and to make hibiscus into the next great flavor of sodas (sloths love hibiscus flowers). Unfortunately, sloths are really slow, so to deliver their delicious hibiscus concoction to thirsty Ultimate players while the game is still going on, they got some delivery quadcopters! And sure enough, it caught on with Ultimate players across Boston who are now rehydrating slothfully!

But Ultimate players want to be able to see when one of the Slothful Soda delivery quadcopters is getting close to their playing field so they know how many points to play to. So the sloths at the Cambridge Fresh Pond started a socket.io server that lets you see the locations of all of the quadcopters in the Slothful Soda delivery fleet.

While in this web app the W, A, S, and D keys are used for changing your position, this could just as easily be done with other forms of navigation, such as GPS location (I chose WASD navigation to make it easy to test from localhost and also because I'm a gamer).

##NOTE: Don't tell friends who are likely to believe satire news articles like the ones on The Onion about this repository. Sloths don't live on the Fresh Pond and don't have quadcopters but everyone knows if sloths figure out how to use quadcopters it means the Apocalypse is here and we really don't need any more people theorizing about when the Apocalypse is.

Documentation

Overview

slothful-soda-tracker document

server.go