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Student Projects – HisTOURy

Made by Team splice-girls

Plan your own history tour!

HisTOURy is a mobile application where you can find historical information about your local area and create your own history tour. You can view locations on a map and plan your own tours to explore your home city or even when traveling abroad. We were inspired by our own experiences when travelling, and being able to plan and use an application that can make a personalised tour at your convienance. The user experience is centralised around using maps and creating their own custom tour using our planner.

The Team

David Kolaja

David Kolaja

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Riona McCumskay

Riona McCumskay

Riona is a tv producer turned software developer. Very into

puzzle games and mystery series’, she’s taken on coding like a new puzzle to solve. She took the lead on the map and planner for hisTOURy.

Hannah Reed

Hannah Reed

Hannah was a Model Maker working in Film, TV, and

Architecture for 13 years before transitioning to Software Development and completing the Northcoders bootcamp. It has been an incredible journey, and she is excited about what lies ahead! She primarily focused on the front end of the project, contributing to several components, including voting, filtering, and search.

Georgia O'Neill

Georgia O’Neill

Georgia was a primary school teacher for 7 years before

undertaking the Software Development course at Northcoders. She mainly worked on backend, with hisTOURY’s data.

Viktoriia Popova

Viktoriia Popova

Vikki, a Ukrainian logistics manager, has been living in

the UK for almost two years with her wonderful daughter. She never imagined finding such an incredible team as the one she’s worked with over the past three weeks! Passionate about running, learning new languages, and tackling challenges.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack for this group

We used: React Native (expo), mapbox, tanstack query, tailwind css, supapbase, postgis extension, sql, plpgsql Exploring new technology which we found fitted our brief.

Challenges Faced

The challenges we faced were Mapbox, connecting the new technologies, simulators and getting everything to combine together seamlessly.