Description

This project emanated from an investment the College made several years ago to create a business mapping tool and inventory for use by college students. Bull Moose worked with students in the Computer Science Department enrolled in Professor Doug Luman’s internship course (CMPSC 592) to develop an automated scraping tool that will “scrape” the internet for publicly available current business information to populate the map and inventory. This scraping tool will enable the map and business inventory to be continually and automatically refreshed.

Outcome

The goal of the project is to make business information fresh and publicly available to drive greater support of downtown and area businesses.

Project Details

IMPACT TEAM

Community and Economic Development

TYPE

Community Project Grants (CPG)

STATUS

Open

FACULTY/STAFF SUPERVISOR

Doug Luman

STUDENT(S)

Stephen Palmer; Trang Hoang; Tugi Gantulga

COMMUNITY PARTNER(S)

Meadville Independent Business Alliance; Bull Moose Marketing