Charles Dunbar, Ben Kallal, Ankit Patel, Peter Purcell, Kody Reynolds

 Purpose  Problem Statement – There is currently no such application specifically designed for cyclists to create routes that make use of the bike trails in IA.  Solution

 Create a safe and efficient route between two locations in Iowa  Will support online access through any operating system that supports application supported browser  Will support IE, FF, Chrome  Will take a start and end location for routing  Will have consistent routing algorithm

 Will route cyclists using a graphical interface  Will display a route as an overlay of an Iowa map  Will allow the printing of a map with instructions  Will provide a code or URL that can be sent to another to exactly recreate the route  Mapping data can be updated and maintained

 Usability Must provide a positive service to the users to help accomplish their goals of finding the least-costly route  Reliability Users must be allowed to access the web service almost always without any downtime and get back the correct least-cost path from origin to destination

 Speed The algorithm and user interaction with the application must be reasonably fast and responsive under normal use conditions  Scalability Must be able to handle multiple requests at once – up to an upper limit MAX_NUM_USERS that is defined  Security The server module must be immune to attacks from external sources

 Our proposed solution is made up of several different modules.  The modules communicate to one another using function calls.  The four modules include Client, Server, GIS Server, and Manual modules

 The website the end user sees  Communicates with the Google Maps via Google Maps JavaScript API.  Communicates with ARC GIS Server via ARC GIS JavaScript API.  Contains JavaScript functions to display routing information in visual and textual format

 The User Interface will look similar in all browsers  Will be extensible for the addition of future features.  Designed to be useable by people with little computer experience  Will allow two users to get the same route with minimal effort  Can support many concurrent users

 Hosts the client module  Where the mapping algorithm is executed  The mapping algorithm is the A* mapping algorithm  Returns the path and biking directions to the client module  Has a special custom object class for holding direction information and GIS data

 Hosts an instance of the ArcGIS Server  Contains GIS road data for all of Iowa, retrieved from the Iowa DOT  Communicates data to the server and client module

 The purpose of this module is to provide a simple and effective means of updating the mapping data on the GIS server.  This is necessary due to the complexity of the GIS server application.

 Communication with GIS (to server and client module) ESRI API  ArcGIS developer  Associated Risk AJAX calls  Interactive web applications

 Apache  Google Maps  ArcGIS-Server server: Red Hat Enterprise 5.4  Xenon 2.67GHz CPU  3042MB Memory  10GB hard drive  ArcGIS Server  ArcGIS Client server: Red Hat Enterprise 5.4  Xenon 2.67GHz CPU  372MB memory  8GB hard drive

 JavaScript Testing  Requirements Testing  General Route Testing  Usability Testing

 Survey In our survey the users will have the following tasks: 1. Insert a departure and a destination. 2. Select preferences. 3. Analyze route given.

 Losing a team member.  Limited web programming  Knowledge of GIS  Mapping algorithm  Google changing the API

 Questions?