API web application to show list of hotels given a location and coordinates

1. open cmd or terminal, run this command if you don't have virtual environment on your machine > pip install virtualenv
2. create a virtual environment > virtualenv env
3. Activate the virtual environment

1. Firstly, clone or download the github repository > https://github.com/gyrationtechs/nearhotel.git
2. I am assume you are familiar with working with virtual environment and command prompt
3. to clone the repository run this command > 'git clone https://github.com/gyrationtechs/nearhotel.git'
4. initialize a virtual environment on the repository you created, activate the virtual environment
5. run the command to install all library used > pip install -r requirements.txt
6. run the command > python manage.py migrate (to create database tables)
7. Before running > python manage.py runserver read the API Docs
8. Rename the .env-example file to .env and replace the API_KEY Variable with the key gotten from the here API

1. This project uses Here API for geocoding, near places, and mapView, to access the API you will need to provide an API_KEY on the .env file.
2. Go to > https://developer.here.com and sign up for a free developer account, create a project and navigate to your dashboard
3. Open the service you created and click on Create API_KEY, copy the key and paste the code in the .env file, replace YOUR_API_KEY with the value from the here dashboard

1. Once all configurations are set, you can run the command > python manage.py runserver
2. By default, you access the web app through > localhost:8000
3. From the homepage, click on the get Started button, it will redirect you to the api form page
4. Enter the addres you wish to get nearby hotels for.
5. It posts the data and returns a list of 5 hotels close to the specified location, as well as returning the map and coordinates for the specified location
6. To alter the result, change the near_hotels function, alter the limit parameter in the url variable to your desired value

1. The web application is hosted remotely on heroku and can be accessed through the link below Demo: https://nearbyhotel.herokuapp.com