In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has released a series of guidelines for the public and businesses to follow in order to prevent the spread of the disease and contamination. A crucial guideline is social distancing, where people maintain a physical distance of at least 6 feet from others to reduce the spread of the airborne disease.
With businesses such as grocery stores and restaurants opening back up, people must keep social distancing regulations and store capacities in mind. However, it is difficult for people to see store occupancy limits or population density for social distancing.
We designed an app called DiffuseMap using Radar.io’s Geofence and Places features to calculate the population density of stores and redirect users to stores with the lowest population density to encourage social distancing.
Users can set a store radius based on how far they are willing to drive.
Another feature of the app would use risk levels outlined by the CDC (see below) to match users to stores of their preferred level of risk.