MLH LocationHost

Inspiration

I work for MLH on the Localhost team. Localhost is MLH's educational product. It provides a workshop right out of the box. Like an API. We have workshops that are scheduled all over the world.

What it does

This project shows some locations that our Localhost workshops were run. The locations are generalized to the city/town that the event was hosted in. This map only shows some workshop locations as the addresses that we get, particularly foreign ones, are not parsed well by the HERE.com API.

How I built it

The project gets the location that the information that Localhost organizers send us, and uses HERE's "Marker on the Map" and Geocoder API.

Challenges I ran into

Permissions with HERE.com

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The MLH team can now see where our events are ran across the world! We can see our #global reach of our educational platform

What I learned

HTML, CSS, JS, regex.

What's next for MLH LocationHost

Hopefully displaying on our TV somewhere. Learn more about MLH Localhost and the benefits it can provide you at https://localhost.mlh.io!