MapMove is a web app that lets you put a Star Wars character anywhere on the world map. You can select one of 12 characters and enter a location in free-text. The app does a geo-location lookup for your specified location and places your selected character at that location on the map.

Live URL: http://shanrao-mapmove.appspot.com

Technology Stack

• Frontend
  • Bootstrap
• Backend Application
  • Python
  • Jinja
• APIs and Services
  • Google Maps Geocoding API
  • Google Maps Javascript API
• Compute
  • Google App Engine
• Datastore
  • NDB (non-SQL)

All views are beautifully designed using Bootstrap based CSS. Feedback and application errors are elegantly presented using Javascript handlers.

The app is written in Python. Jinja enables frontend templating. Google Map APIs are used to get geo-location information.

The application is built on Google App Engine, with features such as auto-scaling, caching, and sophisticated management dashboards.

The datastore uses NDB, a schemaless object datastore providing robust, scalable storage.