WikiTourist, Roya Olyazadeh

Wiki-Tourist
Location-based service is information on the geographical position of the mobile device. It includes services to identify the location of an object or person and provide people with information and entertainment. This mobile- based application is a sample of Location-based service (LBS) which provides a usable framework mobile base application for tourists. It is called Wiki-Tourist. Wikitourist planned to do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Submit new current location. Show current location in the map Add information such as name, description and satisfaction by Percent (popularity). Capture picture. Change location. Store all the locations in database. Select top places. Define the best route for top places.

Steps 4,7 and 8 will be add as future work by knowing more about LBS application and TSP (Travel sale problem). This mobile web application is implemented by Jguerymobile GUI. It is an HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation [1]. HTML5-Geolocation is used to define the current location. The Geolocation API proposes a high-level interface to location information connected the latitude and longitude [2].To display the map, Google map Javascript application is applied. The map shows current location with a red marker and by clicking inside the map you can add other marker and the center of the map will be moved to new clicked place [3].Finally a local database is created for storing the current locations by HTML5 Local database [4].This database obtains information from input text such as name, description, latitude and longitude. It has several functions like create a table, adding a row to the database, deleting a row or an element, drop the table and update [5].The local database works on GoogleChrome. Totally, this application works as follow: First it asks if the user wants to share current location with the browser. Then it display latitude and longitude in to the input text. The user can change the location by clicking on the map. Beside information can be added into input texts. Then the first button has to be clicked is Insert button. So it can add data to the data base. If the location is changed, the user can click on Submit button to track the new current location. Finally it can reset the form or remove the database or delete one data from database manually. The webpage is available at:

http://ifgibox.de/r_olya01/http:/ifgibox.de/r_olya01/Tourist/olyazadeh-web.html
Resources: 1. 2. 3. 4. http://jquerymobile.com/ http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_geolocation.asp https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays http://blog.darkcrimson.com/2010/05/local-databases

5. http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Store_data_in_the_HTML5_SQLite_database19115.html