I am assuming everyone is going to get food on saturday 10/14/2023.
Python 3.11 Pandas OSMPythonTools GeoPandas GeoPy Matplotlib
I attempted to use the open street map overpass API in order to collect data on food trucks in Indianapolis. I am unfamilar with collecting data from APIs as I come from a biology research background so I had to teach myself this process during the WSA. I was able to collect the number of fast food restaurants and then the number of of fast food places which were also street vendors. According to the API there were no street vendors in Indianapolis which told me the OpenStreetMap data on food trucks in Indy was lacking. I wanted to use OpenStreetMap data as it was free and easily acessible and I could not get the GoogleMaps API or the AWS API to work.
The API data is contained in the program "foodXOpenMapApi.py". Which can simply be run like:
python3 foodXOpenMapApi.py
Since I was unable to get the API to work I wanted to show off my python data anayslsis skills so I premade a CSV of food trucks in Indy called "foodTrucks.csv" to read into pandas. This file is read by "foodXDataAna.py" which is called from the main directory by:
python3 foodXDataAna.py
Some basic anaylsis of the data shows that most of the food trucks serve either taco or Mexican cuisine, and two of the food trucks will be closed on 10/14. Using a mean function we find that the average star rating of 4.2333 stars out of 5. With the lowest rating being 1 and the highest being 5. The next order of bussiness is to drop the closed food trucks from the data frame as there is no point in including them in our plan.
Then I used geopy to find the latitude and longitude cordinates for each address. I put them into an geopandas dataframe which is plotted against a .shp file for the state of Indiana. I could not figure out how to zoom into just Indianapolis. This map is included below and in the repo as "foodTruckMap.png".
To create the plan I relied on Google Maps. Running on the assumption we would be starting from IUPUI campus. This plan is in the "plan.csv" file. There is also an image version of the plan named "plan.png". The plan will in total go from 10:30 AM to 8:30 PM and will require 1 hour and 26 miles of driving across 46 miles. Because all of the food trucks had very far apart opening times I based the plan on the sucession of opening rather then closeness unless two trucks were opened at the same time and then I determined it based on closeness. The final food truck visted was The Night Owl Food Truck as it was open the latest.