How to access the deployed app:

https://ucsc-geolocator.vercel.app/

How to use app locally (on windows):

Set up redis (must do this before starting Flask server)

1. Open windows powershell and do wsl --install
2. For convenience do wsl --set-default Ubuntu so that you can type wsl to start up the linux environment. Follow the instructions
3. Open a code editor like VSCode and go to the server directory
4. Run wsl and paste the commands at the following url to install Redis: Redis community edition for windows
5. Do sudo service redis-server start to initialize redis
6. Go to the redisData folder
7. Do redis-cli and copy the config information into a .env file in this folder. The env file should set HOST to localhost, DATABASE_PORT to the port shown from the command, and DATABASE_NUM to 0
8. Create a file in this folder called __init__.py so that Flask can recognize getNearby.py

Backend server

1. Open a new terminal and go to the server directory.
2. Do python -m venv myenv
3. Activate the virtual environment through myenv/scripts/activate
4. Install dependencies through pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run python model.py and make sure geolocator.keras is created in the server directory
6. Create a folder caled images inside server and a folder called upload inside images (this is just for temporarily storing uploaded photos)
7. Run Flask server through python main.py

Frontend server

1. Open a new terminal and go to the client directory
2. Install the latest node version if you haven't already done so
3. Do npm install
4. Do npm run start
5. This should open a new tab in your browser.
6. Add an image and click upload.