EDELGARD map

A routing web app for the EDELGARD project in Cologne, Germany

Background

EDELGARD ^(de) is a campaign by the Cologne Initiative Against Sexualized Violence ^(de). Its goal is to improve protection for women and girls against sexualized violence in public spaces within Cologne, Germany. More than one hundred organizations and businesses in Cologne have agreed to open their doors for people seeking a protected space.

Purpose

This app assists the user in finding available protected spaces based on geolocation and business hours. It can then route the user to the place of their choice.

A demo version of the app can be viewed at https://edelgard-test.netlify.com/

Development

The app currently requires an API token for the services of Mapbox, both for the map tiles and for routing requests. A token can be retrieved after creating a free Mapbox account.

Please create a file named .env.local in the client directory with the following contents.

REACT_APP_MAPBOX_TOKEN=yourtokenhere

You can then install the dependencies and start the development server.

npm install
npm start