Inspiration
I wanted to find a site dedicated to old world discoveries, where I can see items that other people have found and where they found them- and maybe learn a little more about the fossils or artifacts that they had found. But after many searches I could not find a platform to share my cool seashell fossils, or find out where people found amber stones and whatnot.
This inspired me to make Stone Share, a site that does just that! People can discover the different interesting artifacts that others have discovered, and filter by the archeological type. This platform is open to all educational levels, from complete newbies like me, to the big -ologists of historical science.
What it does
Ever find an interesting artifact while exploring, and want to share your finds with others?
Stone Share provides a community for both professional and non-professional history enthusiasts to share their (big, and small) discoveries with the world!
When you visit Stone Share, you are instantly shown a variety of artifacts discovered by people, the tags it falls under, and the date the post was created. There are filters for if you want to look at specific artifacts, for example only sea creatures, or photos of remnants of previous undocumented civilizations.
This web app enables users to discover and post their latest findings, as well as share the area of discovery for other prospectors to discover more finds.
How we built it
I used firebase to store my data, and html+css+javascript to create the layout and design of the web app.
Challenges we ran into
maps were a struggle to work with.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I am overall proud of my data model. It's organization enables me to scale the project to implement more filters in the future, combined with the javascript code+functions I created to filter the data out based on tags.
What we learned
Super excited about getting the google api location stuff to work! I learned a lot about storing geo-locations in a database.
What's next for Stone Share
I wasn't able to finish the Maps feature by the end of the hackathon, however I hope to further develop the maps page for users to see findings discovered near them.
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