/api-exercise-seven-wonders

Exercise in writing Ruby to parse API responses using Google Maps API

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API Exercise: Seven Wonders of the World

You are planning a trip to see all seven wonders of the world! How exciting! And now you need to plan your trip, using the coordinates of all seven wonders. Being a developer, why do this yourself when you can have a computer do it for you?!

Using the list of all the wonders, make a collection of all their coordinates using httparty and Location IQ's API.

Use this:

seven_wonders = ["Great Pyramid of Giza", "Hanging Gardens of Babylon", "Colossus of Rhodes", "Pharos of Alexandria", "Statue of Zeus at Olympia", "Temple of Artemis", "Mausoleum at Halicarnassus"]

To Generate this:

{"Great Pyramid of Giza"=>{"lat"=>29.9792345, "lng"=>31.1342019}, "Hanging Gardens of Babylon"=>{"lat"=>32.5422374, "lng"=>44.42103609999999}, "Colossus of Rhodes"=>{"lat"=>36.45106560000001, "lng"=>28.2258333}, "Pharos of Alexandria"=>{"lat"=>38.7904054, "lng"=>-77.040581}, "Statue of Zeus at Olympia"=>{"lat"=>37.6379375, "lng"=>21.6302601}, "Temple of Artemis"=>{"lat"=>37.9498715, "lng"=>27.3633807}, "Mausoleum at Halicarnassus"=>{"lat"=>37.038132, "lng"=>27.4243849}}

The first part of this challenge will be figuring out how to look up a site's location. How will you find the very specific api request needed to obtain the necessary data, based only on the information provided in the seven_wonders array? Hint: You will need an API key, and you can request an API key from Location IQ. It's free!

The second part will be understanding how to interact with the response data to target the specific parts needed to get the result we want.

Instructions:

  • Fork and clone this repository.
  • Open the provided ruby file, seven_wonders.rb.
  • Use your developer skills to adventure through Google searches and the Location IQ's documentation to discover how to request the location of all the great wonders.

Word of Warning The free API is "rate-limited" this means that you can only make so many API calls a second. You will need to pause your program between requests. You can do so with sleep(1), which will pause your application for 1 second.

Optional Enhancement

For an optional enhancement try to:

  • Make a request for driving directions from Cairo Egypt to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
  • Turn these locations into the names of places: [{ lat: 38.8976998, lon: -77.0365534886228}, {lat: 48.4283182, lon: -123.3649533 }, { lat: 41.8902614, lon: 12.493087103595503}]

Safe travels!