Updated Blog: Searching Engine for mess & 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)

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Comment by Suraj Krishnaswami on October 28, 2011 at 4:28pm: Yes this application will be very use full, for the people new to pune! :)

Comment by nikam mahendra kadu on October 20, 2011 at 2:17pm: Nice application for newly coming at pune.

Comment by Bhagyashri Sawkar on October 9, 2011 at 8:37pm: Sir,

Sorry for not being in contact for a long time, bcuz of our internals...

Again hav started wid our proj now..

m getting route for static source n destination...

I hav to find latitude n longitude of location entered by user..
Eg: if user enters "Sadashiv Peth", i hav to find latitude n longitude of sadashiv peth.

According to it, i hav to show all messes within 2 km of that location....

But while using geocoder on emulator, its giving error... how can we do it??

Is der any other way to find lat-long of a location????

Comment by Kaushik on September 9, 2011 at 3:44pm: Great progress on that :-). Once you have the place search complete you need to perform a place details api call.This will give you detail information for the location.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/#PlaceDetails

Comment by Bhagyashri Sawkar on September 8, 2011 at 9:16pm: Sir,

We have parsed the JSON file which we had mailed previously... Right now we are only retrieving the names of messes available in particular area.

Sir, how can we get the complete address and contact info of these places??? The JSON file contains only the longitude n latitude info..

What r v supposed to do next??

Comment by Kaushik on September 1, 2011 at 11:41am: Either one is fine. If you are more comfortable with xml go with that. I also recommend you read about json and understand how it compares and try and understand the key benefits of the format.

Comment by Aditi vasant patwardhan on September 1, 2011 at 11:18am: Sir there is conflict...what should we use xml or json???

THe parameter 'output' in place search URL has 2 types either json or xml...

We have some idea of xml..So what do you think???Should we go for parsing xml or json????

Comment by Bhagyashri Sawkar on September 1, 2011 at 10:58am: now we'll focus on parsing this data..

Updated image in jpg format:

Comment by Kaushik on September 1, 2011 at 7:00am: Can you update your image below to jpg instead of bmp, bmp files are very heavy to load.

I assume you are using places api for retrieving this data. Next can you focus on the following. Understand the json structure that is returned and work on parsing a json file and this information and displaying only the key fields like address, name etc.

Comment by Bhagyashri Sawkar on August 25, 2011 at 6:12pm: Thanks sir... we'll try using the Places API.