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Create a POC to evaluate if Vue.js is a good approach to render the frontend.
Routing, templating and espacially the two-way binding could be a big benefit.

use sam local with a local dynamodb docker container to run tests and for development purposes without deploying

everything is ugly, maybe find someone who is not a total design-idiot

so that after a refresh during a game, the game can be continued

We currently generate random positions in the backend, but because the streetviewservice only offers a Javascript Library and no direct API, the client has to generate the actual streetview positions (which might differ from the random generated positions in the specified area(s)).

We should find a way to find the nearest streetview ID for a given random point in the backend.

make sure (e.g. with a secret) that a player can only post his own guesses

When getting countries by continent, some countries are included in multiple continents.
E.g. when doing this query against WikiData, it returns Denmark as a country in North America.
If you view Denmark here, you can see that it has two continents as properties; Europe because of the region Denmark & Faroe Islands and North America because of Greenland.

We should find a way to adjust our query so that countries only come up when the higher ranking continent (in this case europe) fits

when drawing a custom play area, the areas are also shown in the minimap during the game.
This should also be possible when selecting cities via the search bar

We have to update the starting positions in our DB once all streetview positions are generated

When the player creates a room, first check if we can create streetviews with the players settings (e.g. whether we can get the boundaries for every selected city, or whether there is at least one city with x population in the selected country / continent).
Then, create just one streetview and let the player begin the game. Trigger a lambda function to fill the room with the missing streetviews. If the player clicks on "Next round", check whether the next streetview is already generated and if not, wait.

This should also minimize the perceived loading times #21

so that games are deleted after X hours

If there is an error while creating a room, the loading screen just never ends.

e.g. don't use streetviews on trails, forest paths, etc.

currently, the room creator is redirected to "/createRoom", on which the client generates streetview positions and posts them to the backend.
We are not making sure that only the creator can post those positions, so anyone who knows a game ID that is in creation (and gets the timing right) can cheat.

We often have the case that the randomly selected streetview panoramas are places where you actually can't move. Hopefully there is a flag or other mechanism to solve this

E.g. "Afrikaskop" --> is not an "administrative" feature in openstreetmap but just a single point. --> use all suitable feature types
E.g. "Bernau bei Berlin" not working -> didn't look yet why