Münster Discovery

An interactive web application for exploring the city of Münster, Germany. Discover Christmas markets, track your explored areas, and compete with others in a gamified city exploration experience.

Features

• Interactive Map: Explore Münster's Christmas markets with an interactive Leaflet map featuring real-time data from the Stadt Münster WFS service
• User Profiles: Track your exploration progress, view explored areas, and manage your favorite routes
• Achievements System: Earn badges for exploring different areas, completing routes, and discovering all Christmas markets
• Multilingual Support: Available in 12 languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Arabic)
• Responsive Design: Optimized for desktop and mobile devices using Chakra UI

ChatBot Implementation

The web application features a chatbot "Chat With Ridey". We leverage the semantic understanding of GPT OSS 120B-LLM in a agentic structure. The agent's persona is Ridey, the friendly bicycle-mascot of the Muenster Discovery-App. It can perform following tasks:

• POI & route database: Retrieves information about POIs and routes that are predefined by the Muenster Discovery-Team
• Leaderboard & user database: Retrieves information about the public user database and about the current user
• App Support: Knows about links and content in the app; can direct the user via an HTML element

IMPORTANT: Ridey is hosted in a Huggingface-Space which will not run at all times. Access the Chat With Ridey-Application here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/MIDI11/chatwithridey

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React 18 with TypeScript
• Build Tool: Vite 7
• UI Framework: Chakra UI 3
• Mapping: Leaflet & React-Leaflet
• Internationalization: react-intl
• Routing: React Router 7
• Authentication: Supabase (integration prepared)
• Deployment: GitHub Pages

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20 or higher
• npm

Installation

cd muensterdiscovery
npm install

Development

npm run dev

Build

npm run build

Deploy to GitHub Pages

npm run deploy

Project Structure

• /src/pages - Main application pages (Welcome, Profile, OpenWorld, etc.)
• /src/components - Reusable components (Header, Menu, LanguageSelector)
• /src/i18n - Internationalization files for 12 languages
• /src/assets - Images and static resources

Data Source

Christmas market data is dynamically loaded from the official Stadt Münster WFS service, providing real-time information about locations and opening times.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Academic Context

This project is a student project developed as part of the Master's program in Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Science at the University of Münster.

Contributors

• Lukas Räuschel
• Mika Dinnus
• Julia Ilchmann
• Anke Nienaber
• Matteo Weickert
• Darian Weiß

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