Accessibility Map LOG
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Week of January 29
Wednesday: group met from 2-4 and discussed challenges of the project. We researched what exactly we will use to build the device as well as worked on the Gantt chart.
Week of February 5
Sunday 2/4: Hannah spent 1 hour downloading and learning more about the Python program.
Goals:
- What to put into the algorithm
- Getting GIS to work
- Getting GIS to work
- QGIS download
- Read more info
Download Pycharm + QGIS
Monday 2/5: Hannah spent 1 hour creating powerpoint presentation for class presentation.
Wednesday 2/7: Group met for one hour adding to wiki page and project proposal
Week of February 12
Tuesday 2/13: Wiki page was updated to include TA, Gantt Chart and a longer description of the project. The presentation was also worked on for the class.
Wednesday 2/14: Today we hashed out our GANTT chart, in addition to making additions to our longterm goals. We updated our wiki, and have goals for next week to present our proposal, become adept in python and gather the data of distances.
Wednesday 2/16: Presented project proposal to class.
Week of February 19
Sunday 2/18: Watched multiple python tutorial videos. Most helpful links are below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mEzFDjqtA
https://www.python-course.eu/advanced_topics.php
Wednesday 2/21:
TA meeting discussed short term and long term goals: 1 hour
Week of February 26
Sunday 2/25: Noah created a program in python to figure out distance between two coordinates. It took around 30 minutes.
Hannah completed the python assignment listed below in goals (2.5 hours)
Monday 2/26: Noah created a program that sorts the distances between coordinates in order. It took around 2 hours.
Tuesday 2/27: Hannah, Zahra and Noah met with William Winston, an arGIS specialist on campus. We discussed the best possible programs and have scheduled another meeting for Friday afternoon.
William Winston Notes
Defined data set
BUILDING ENTRY
stairs, foot paths
brad aver back - GIS layout
Upgrade arc gis remote
arcGIS online
Use python to control arcGIS
Python questions: Molly webb
Build linear systems
Heads up digitization
Identify all doorways
Check if windows is running 10.5
Send contact name to update version
Making linear Digitize and create network
Entry ways (pick one closest to elevator)
Current Goals
Python Skills:
Given two points, calculates distance between the two (2d coordinates)
Program, given n points, gives distance between all points in sorted order
arcGIS :
Be able to load up Python environment and get points from a layer (list of points)
