[Marble-devel] New Idea for GSoC project on Marble

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Sanjiban,

the idea of combining tour suggestions with routing is a very nice one. 
There's a webservice / phone app doing similar here: 
http://www.komoot.de/

To realize something like that in Marble I'd keep the data storage 
external though and integrate an existing webservice. I don't think 
komoot offers some kind of API (please check), but there may be other 
services like http://www.gpsies.com/ which do. We could integrate such a 
service (assuming their terms of usage are ok) via a Marble online 
plugin. From there on further features could be added (e.g. create a 
custom route from a suggested tour which starts from the current 
location, joins the tour, follows it, routes back to current location, 
also tour rating or tour upload if the webservice allows).

Regards,
Dennis

Am 12.02.2014 18:15, schrieb Sanjiban Bairagya:
> Hi,
> 
> I was going through the ideas on Marble for GSoC this year, and, along
> with the idea 
> on "Interactive Tours" I was thinking of another one.
> 
> Okay, so Marble has got an option, which shows the directions from one
> place to 
> another, depending on the entries of the locations made by the user.
> So my idea 
> was to implement a way for users to rate directions on a scale from 0
> to 5, or 
> whatever. So, directions would be suggested according to these
> ratings. Now for this 
> to work, there needs to be some form of an online database, where
> these ratings 
> could be stored. The users would rate directions depending on various
> factors, like 
> road condition, traffic, safety, and an overall rating. So, in this
> case, since along with 
> other factors, we are considering user-related factors as well, so the
> directions-
> searching could be a bit more efficient than before. I was just
> thinking of the above 
> idea, and was wondering if this might be a good enough idea to work
> on.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Sanjiban Bairagya
> (fewcha on IRC)
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