Search Engine for Mess and Hostels

PROBLEM DEFINITION:

As Pune is an Industrial & educational hub, a large crowd come here for various reasons. A primary need for them would be Living. They face many problems related to basic needs. Our application would be helpful in such a senario.

> Search engine for mess, hostel, paying-guest will be implemented on Android. Users having an Android mobile can access our application and resolve above problems instantly.

> In this application, we will be using database for storing whole information like name, address, etc. of mess/ hostel/ paying-guest and their respective route maps.

> We wish to provide facility that according to his/her current position, user could get the exact information of intended mess/ hostel/ paying-guest and route from their current position.

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We are creating 3 categories viz.
> Mess
> Hostels
> Paying Guest

According to users choice, map will be shown for any one of above, or all.

We have identified 3 modules:
1) User which resides within Pune-
When user access our application, according to user's current location, a list of nearest mess/hostels will be displayed. After user clicks on a particular record, the complete info. alongwith its route will be displayed.
If user wants to search from a particular location, we will be providing a drop-down list for the same.

2) User which resides outside Pune-
Here, user will have to select a location for mess, etc. from drop-down list and map will be
provided from Shivajinagar or Pune Station to selected location.

Questions:

1) Is it necessary to show dynamic maps always as we are providing maps from current position to destination location???Means the dynamic updation is possible or not???

2) Is dynamic accessing of maps is necessary or should we store maps in database???

3) Is it necessary to show maps from user's current location or can be show from shivaji nagar/pune station???Because most of them knows these locations.

4) Is there any utility in android which is used to access these maps???or should we use GPS for that???

These ideas are not clear yet..

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Project Members:

>Aditi Patwardhan
>Prajakta Vispute
>Meera Navale
>Bhagyashri Sawkar.

(Fergusson College)