/Wheel-Of-Lunch

HTML5 randomised spinning wheel to select a place to eat by using a RESTful API to fetch local places.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

#Wheel of Lunch Wheel of Lunch is a website which determines where a user should go for lunch. The site utilises HTML5 to draw a wheel of a collection of local restaurants which is obtained from a custom RESTful API and Google Places.

Click here to view demo.

##Features

  • Range finder to determine a suitable distance to search for the initial 12 places.
  • Get location via Google Maps or by current location.
  • Variable search parameters.
  • View selected place on Google Maps.
  • Location search net increments when few results are found (for rural areas).
  • Search for "restuaraunts", "food" or "bar".
  • Shareable url links (allows others to view the same results).

##Search Radius When a user is in a rural area and the wheel can not find a suitable number of places within the default search radius, the search will increment until a suitable number is found.

Search radius increments

Increment Search Radius
1 300
2 400
3 500
4 1000
5 1500
6 2000
7 2500
8 3000

##Resources:

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Jack Palmer

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