Find Nearby Places

AI Hiking — Discover Your Mountain, Inside and Out AI Hiking is an AI-powered platform that helps users find the perfect hiking trail in Italian mountain regions through natural language search, combining semantic vector search with real-time weather filtering. The Problem Mountain destinations are rich with experiences — trails, rifugi, local guides, cultural sites, events — but this information is scattered across dozens of regional tourism portals, municipality websites, and outdoor platforms, with no unified access point. The Solution Using Bright Data's Web Scraper API and Dataset platform, AI Hiking automatically collects and normalizes POI data (points of interest) from heterogeneous Italian tourism sources: regional portals, OpenStreetMap-based directories, local event boards, and mountain hut listings. Bright Data handles the complexity of geo-distributed scraping, bypassing regional blocks and aggregating structured data at scale. This enriched dataset feeds directly into the "Explore the Area" feature: given a mountain location, users instantly see everything nearby — guided tours, rifugi with contacts and hours, nature reserves, cultural landmarks, and local activities — all rendered on an interactive map. Tech Stack React PWA · Node.js/Express · MongoDB · OpenAI Embeddings · Vectra · Bright Data · Open-Meteo · Leaflet