Raccoonteur | Migratory Travels and Travel Stories
Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.
Awards & Nominations
Raccoonteur has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
The Challenge | Migratory Travels and Travel Stories
Pick a migratory species of your choice and build a tool that shows the distribution of their available habitats, and track their sightings in real time!
Wild Dex
Wild Dex is a teaching app aimed at children. It shows the historic migration route of different species around the world, and in addition it gives us interesting facts and the possibility to observe a photo gallery.
What does Wild Dex do?
- It shows you the historic migration route and the travel months of different species.
- You can learn fun facts about the species and the importance of their migratory travel, hear the sound of each species and view a breath –taking photo gallery of the animals in their natural habitat!
Explore, learn and share, Wild Dex.
RESOURCES USED
Information resources provided by NASA:
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/migration/en/
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/tracking...
Software:
Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Netbeans and Android Studio.
Further work
- The app
is currently being developed for mobile devices (android).
- Include
more species and up-scale the map to a global view.
- Add
videos into the interactive features so you can watch and learn about the
behavior of species.
- Help us
track species based on your sightings! Be able to mark the location of your
sighting via GPS and even upload a picture to share with the community.
Our GitHub Repository can be found here:
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.