Temitope Adeosun MSc Dissertation 2015/16

An app for finding my car

Supervised by G.Struth

Abstract

Navigation is an age old problem. Today there exists a multitude of tools that help people find their way around. More commonly known to most people are those navigation tools on our mobile devices. Big names like Google Maps, Apple's Map, Tomtom and Here Maps dominate the world of navigation on mobile devices. This project is one student's exploration of navigation - wondering down the path where these great services we have all come to know might not exist or might have missed something.

The initial focus of this dissertation is on building a solution that supports navigation from an origin to a known destination using a third party route planning API support like Google Direction API. I will be extending this solution by building a custom Route planner that will also attempt to construct an independent knowledge base of routes network.

Ultimately, this is an attempt on my part to build a solution that will replicate the route discovery and route planning features of the navigation tools and services known to many of us.