Meeting Notes - Githubissues

Decided to name the project myTrafficWizard
For now expect to deliver Traffic Monitoring services that include:
- Historic Traffic Data (hotspots) across a certain area
  - Historic Traffic Patterns along a path (route) between two endpoints
  - Real Time/Intraday Patterns along a path (route) between two-end points
  - Incorporate weather data (historical and intraday) in patterns
  - Integration with a social platform like Discord or Slack (or both); create a bot that fetch data or interact with user
Exploring the best source(s) of data via APIS - discussed OpenStreetMap API, OpenData historical traffic API, MapQuest API and Google API
Exploring SDKs for discord bots
Exploring weather APIs
Talked through some possibilities for Infrastructure:
- AWS Lambdas as serverless compute along with Amazon SQS (queueing) to manage incoming requests.
- Render which offers a free tier for Web Services that comes with a PostgreSQL instance.
- Replit
Some concern around load on database for ream time requests
Soft agree to use JavaScript for front end and backend work as long as the necessary libraries are present for the work that needs to be done

Here are some of the points we discussed:

Interface that allows the user to select the time of day they are planning to leave and route - this would initiate a subsequent alert
Users should be allowed to select the way in which they get alerts (email, text, discord, slack, etc)
A static map that is overlayed with weather and traffic
Alerts about emergency conditions
Data that correlates events in an area
Spin up some environments to understand how deploying code would look (Replit, Render, etc)
App will not use historical data for its services, not storing traffic/weather data but may need to store information around alerts and possibly credentials
Manage alerts through a queue, still have to think through how this will work
Need example responses from API endpoints to better understand how the app will work
Storing information via cookies
Predictive alerts
Limit location scope by using Hays, KS as the location

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