1. Your friendly UW Classroom Finder
CampusQuest
Your friendly UW Classroom Finder

2. Big
Campus is
If you don’t know the campus, finding your way around is difficult. You only have 10 minutes to get between classes
Only a handful of maps on campus, and they’re difficult to find

3. CampusQuest
Basically the same idea as MapQuest, only localized to the University of Washington Campus. CampusQuest would give you easy to follow directions to your classes.

4. System Requirements
User can enter starting and ending point (classroom number, HUB, bus stop)
Directions may include landmarks (“Pass Drumheller fountain…”)
Gives best entry points in Buildings also (Ever gotten lost in Mary Gates Hall?)

5. Architecture Requires a graph-like structure underneath.
We already have short-path search algorithms from 326
Internet Browser functions well as UI
Relatively Easy to maintain – Layout of Campus doesn’t change often

6. Lifecycle Plan Potentially, all major universities might want it.
On-campus businesses will pay up the wazoo to have their locations featured, just like on Mapquest (“Pass Subway on your left…”)
In the immediate future for the UW, but basic architecture can be expanded to include more Universities

7. Feasibility Small enough locale that it is feasible.
Needed algorithms already known.
Problems
A fair amount of tedious data-gathering
How do we measure distance? Is someone going to walk around campus with a pedometer?