Week 12 - Final Report

My part in the last moments of the final report was quite small in comparison to the other reports that we made - I had to write about the challenges that we encountered in the process of making our website, the successful and unsuccessful aspects of the website and any implementations that we couldn’t actually input to the final website.

 For the challenges portion of our report, I wrote about the difficulty the group faced when we were trying to align the dates from Trove to dates that the user had entered. This was an issue that was resolved in the final moments of the semester; showing it was quite an adversary in comparison to the other parts of the website.

 For the successful portions of the website, I wrote about the aforementioned date alignment, the location filter and the mapping on Google Maps - all of which were successful aspects of our website. However, I also had to write about the unsuccessful aspects as well - in which I discussed the major issues with NearMe. One of these was the fact that Trove would grab events from outside of Australia if the location was outside as well. This became a problem; for example, there are two cities named Ipswich - One in Europe, the other in Australia.

 In regards to the unsuccessful implementations, there were quite a few that we couldn't implement successfully - this was due to complexity and/or time constraints. One of these was the fact that we didn't use a timeline to alter the date filter, like originally planned - instead we had to use the text boxes to allow user input for this filter. Another implementation that couldn't be successfully finished was the fact that Trove could not separate actual major events from minor happenings. This resulted in Trove displaying things like 'Local Shop has had a break-in' and this is something that unfortunately could not be fixed for the final website.