Maps Scout

Context

Market research for a region almost always starts the same way: who operates here, how visible are they, and where is digital presence obviously missing? Doing that by hand costs hours and ends in a spreadsheet nobody opens again.

Brief

A tool that bundles that research: search by region and sector, filter by rating and website presence, contact details laid out together.

Approach

• FastAPI backend with local SQLite storage. There is no shared instance, everyone runs their own.
• Frontend deliberately without a build tool: plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Geocoding and place suggestions via OpenStreetMap and Photon.
• Long running searches as background jobs so the interface stays usable.

Outcome

Runs locally and is still being developed.