The goal of this project was to demonstrate how an API can be used. In order to do so, I used Javascript to create a page that displays dinosaur species that have been discovered relatively near the user’s location using the Google Geolocation and GeoCoding API as well as the Paleobiology Database API. My page ended up doing exactly this though it could use some adjusting. The address that is displayed is not perfectly accurate to the user’s location and the area created to find dinosaurs within varies in distance, since the measures are in latitude and longitude. While it still needs work, I think the project perfectly displays my proof of concept for a program that can identify dinosaurs nearby based on a user’s location.
http://misdemo.temple.edu/tug58991/pro_points_paleo_api/
