Mobile GIS Traveler Guide for Sectors F-10 and F-11, Islamabad

Abstract

This research is conducted in order to help travelers and tourists by providing them the best possible route from source location to a destination, visit other facilities of interest en route and send the route images/maps from server to the traveler’s mobile phone in the form of Multimedia Messaging Service, along with complete route summary and driving directions. For this purpose a four-tier mobile based distributed architecture is used; ‘client mobile’ communicates to the ‘application server’ using Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol and receive data using socket connection. The request passes to the ‘Geographic Information Systems Logic’ level where ArcGIS server’s services are running. The program, written in programming language C#.NET entertains the query, performs processing on ‘network dataset’ and sends Multimedia Message to the client mobile set. Multimedia Message received on client mobile comprises of three objects: (a) a labeled image which highlights a route from source to destination; (b) a route summary; and (c) a Multimedia Message object about route details. Thus the system is able to assist the traveler in order to get prior knowledge about his route. The travel guide will help save resources in terms of time, manual route finding skills and fuel.