The code we will be writing will be more interesting to use if we have a lot of data to work with. Companies like Google have invested significant resources to identify places of interest and to record their name, their address, and their location along with some tags that are relevant for searching. We dont have the resources of a company like Google, but we have a lot of students. So we will use a crowdsourcing approach by having each student provide information for 5 - 8 local places of interest. You can include any place that you think a USF student would be likely to go including, for example, restaurants near the airport.

For each location, we want the following information:

Name of the place of interest

Street address (or similar description) for the place (not a complete address, just enough information to find it if you were near that location)

One or more search tags for this place

The latitude of this place

The longitude of this place

For example, one of my favorite places is (swah-rey) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. To include it in our data file. We need to know its name and address and can come up with some tags. To find its latitude and longitude, you can go to this web page:

http://universimmedia.pagesperso-orange.fr/geo/loc.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Or you can get the information directly from Google Maps by following the instructions here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Longitude-and-Latitude-from-Google-Maps (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

You can add whatever search tags you think are appropriate, but Google provides a list of standard tags that would be useful to apply to your entries:

https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

You should put the information together on separate lines, as in:

(swah-rey) 2105 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33713 cafe, bar, dessert 27.771237 -82.66188 

You are to choose 5 - 8 locations and to come up with a similar 5-line entry for each location. The locations should not be private residences and should not include offensive descriptions. Put it all together in the text box below. You are allowed to include a blank line between entries to make it easier to distinguish them while editing.