Developing a personal tourism navigation system for GPS - integrated mobile phones with Android operating system and Google map

Abstract

Mobile services available on mobile devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants are a suitable instrument for spontaneous, ad hoc access to information travelers need while being on the move. Mobile services allow to book last-minute trips, rental cars, and hotels; they provide information about changes and delays of flights and trains, and offer guides on restaurants, events, and sightseeing opportunities at the destination. Location-based Services (LBSs) are mobile services for providing information that has been created, compiled, selected or filtered under consideration of the users’ current locations or those of other persons or mobile devices. So, in this thesis, our goal is to build a software application that supports necessary information for tourists in Vietnam. We’ll develop our application by using Location-based Services technique and running on the Android platform. The four primary functions of system are: (1) localization of persons, and places, (2) routing between two places, (3) search for objects in proximity such as restaurants, shops, hotels, or sights, and (4) navigation for persons from one place to another.