 By Thu Nguyen  Advisor: Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz GEOG 596A – Capstone Project

 Objective GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Develop a smartphone application for trip planning and tracking itinerary, by utilizing location-based and GPS technologies, as well as, the Cloud Computing for data storage.

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Massive amount of unmanageable travel documents Scrapbooking is time consuming, expensive, not real-time A solution is needed to save time on trip planning and journaling.  Motivation

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Smartphone Solution GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Highly active, always available personal itemAll-in-one device

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Free download from Android StoreRequire high-speed internetOff-line mode availableTrip Planner  Expected Results

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Real-time weather forecastNear-by gas, restaurants, etc.Insert marker, picture, video, notes to mapBookmark to Favorites  Expected Results – Cont.

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Android Platform  Google Cloud storage  Web Picasa for photo album  YouTube for video  Google Docs for other file format  Data Access via Google Restful API  SQLite database  Methodology

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Android UI Design pattern  Action Bar  Popup menu  Fit multiple resolution and density  Support both Portrait & Landscape views  Methodology – Cont.

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  YouTube  Unlimited  File size < 2 GB limit  Picasa Web Album  1 GB free  Photo < 800 x 800 pixels don’t count toward your storage quota  Data Storage & Cost

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Google Docs  1 GB free all non-Google Docs file extensions  Document created in Google Docs don’t count toward your storage quota  Additional space cost $0.25/GB/yr  Can be shared between Picasa and Google Docs  Data Storage & Cost – Cont.

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Google Place APITwitter API WikiWunderWIKI Weather API  Web Service API

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  System Infrastructure  Hardware  Windows Lab Top  Droid 2 smartphone  Data Storage  Picasa Web Album  YouTube  Google Docs  SQLite database

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  System Infrastructure – Cont.  Software  Adroid SDK Toolkit  JDK 6  Eclipse IDE 3.4 or greater  Eclipse JDT Plugin, Android Development Tool (ADT)

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Architecture Diagram

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Functional Grouping  Trip screen  Destination screen  Action Bar  Pop-up menu  UI Design  Database Design  System Design

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Create new trip Trips listing Pop-up menu  Trip UI Show map Notes Delete

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log Map of destinations  Destination UI Photo album Video Notes Zoom in Zoom out Add marker Delete marker Pop-up menu

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log FavoritesFind PlaceZoom to my position Weather ForecastExit  Action Bar

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Favorites Pop-up Menu Show on map Walk to Drive to Show details Call

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Find Place Walk to Drive to Show Details Add to favorite Call Pop-up Menu

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Zoom to my position Show Details Add to favorite Pop-up Menu

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Weather Forecast My position Favorites Search Pop-up menu

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log  Database Design

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log April 2011 Create SQLite database May 2011 Widget on home screen & Trip Screen June 2011 Destination screen July 2011 Action Bar August 2011 Destination pop-up menu Demo at a local GIS User Group  Implementation Timeline

GEOG 597a – Capstone Project Travel Log