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 A new Flutter project, featuring the route page.
 
+This route page uses Google Maps API key to retrieve the location data , using which we calculate the distance between multiple stops and the /n
+resulting Carbon Emission rate.
 ## Getting Started
 
 This project is a starting point for a Flutter application.