What's up bay area
What's up bay area aims to help civic workers and advocates use publicly available video feed to find gaps in public infrastructure and improve it.
Core trick
Pulls live Caltrans camera frames and sends each to Gemini for a plain-English read on traffic, hazards, and visibility.
Description
What's up bay area aims to help civic workers and advocates use publicly available video feed to find gaps in public infrastructure and improve it.
README excerpt
# What's Up Bay Area > Every camera. Every road. One conversation. The Bay Area has hundreds of live traffic cameras, zoo livestreams, and real-time road data — but it's all raw, scattered, and unreadable. **What's Up Bay Area** connects to those public feeds and lets Google Gemini tell you what's actually happening, right now, in plain English. --- ## Features ### 🚦 Live Traffic Feeds Browse 150+ real Caltrans highway cameras across the Bay Area. Ask Gemini anything about what it sees — traffic density, hazards, weather visibility. Filter by route or county, click any camera to open an AI sandbox. ### 🐼 Zoo Animal Cams Watch live zoo feeds from California and let Gemini narrate the action — whether the pandas are napping or the penguins are putting on a show. ### ✨ What's Ahead Enter your origin and destination and Gemini scans every camera along your actual road path — surfacing construction, fog, stalled vehicles, or anything worth knowing before you drive. Findings are plotted on a live map and shown as a categorised list you can click into. --- ## Getting Started ### Prerequisites - Python 3.11+ - A `GEMINI_API_KEY` from [Google AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com) - Optionally a `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` for the map embed ### Setup ```bash git clone https://github.com/adityajain93/google-hackathon.git cd google-hackathon python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt ``` Create a `.env` file in the project root: ``` GEMINI_A