About Us

Shelter Search is an online website that allows users to search for shelters or temporary housing based on one's specific needs. Most online searches today are robust and difficult to navigate through, which is why Shelter Search was created. By entering some basic information about one's needs and current or address location, a list of shelters is returned. Absolutely no data is saved so there are no privacy or data concerns.

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How Our Search Algorithm Works

Step 1

Once the form is submitted, the first step in the algorithm is to use the basic information to search for the matching shelters in our MySQl database hosted by Google Cloud

Step 2

Next, we turn the inputted address or live location to longitude and latitude coordinates to find the distance between the given location and the location of the shelters.

Step 3

Finally, using the distance between the shelter and the given location, a list of shelters that match your accomodations is returned from closest to furthest

Languages and Frameworks Used In This Project

Front-End

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Back-End

Python

Flask

SQL