Offline Navigation System for Mobile Devices
Prithumit Deb, Nitin Kumar Singh, S. Ashok Senthil Kumar, Nitish Rai, N. Ch. S. N. Iyengar, Naidu P. A. S · International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications · 2010
The theme of the software that we have been developing is a combination of Mobile Solutions and Leveraging Geo data and Maps to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful to a wider and better extent.Our project is a mobile application that allows the user to download and install street maps of a particular city, state or country depending on his current needs from a site .The downloaded maps can be browsed offline by the user and the user can download new maps or update the existing ones whenever he feels the need to do so.The downloaded maps will be dynamic giving the user the feel as if he is browsing the maps online.The user's current location will be shown on the map using the cell tower info that is provided by all the cell network providers thus making the application usage completely independent of internet service.The downloaded maps will not be like some image of a street map but like a fully functional and active map that allows the user to search for a particular place like some mall, or some spot for tourist interest by just speaking the name of the place which will be processed by the speech recognition system which is a great feature of our application specially useful for people who don't know how to read or write in English .The result produced by the application will be a shortest by road route to the place which will be highlighted on the map ,the distance and the estimate cost of reaching there by a cab or a bus service, any transportation means like a bus stand or a taxi stand in the close vicinity of the users current location will be highlighted in the map.The cursor on the map indicating the user's current location will move along with the user as he travels thus providing him real time information of his location.