Project Report 2: smARtcar
Project Report 2: smARtcar
Overview: This time our focus was getting information about interesting places on the route the user is currently taking and displaying this information in Argon. We managed to get some interesting locations around the current location by using the geoNames API. We created virtual billboards of information and positioned them around the buildings or landmarks they correspond to. Here is a snapshot of the current progress of the application.
The route navigation shown in the previous report is still functional but not shown in the snapshot for clarity. For each step of the route, several places of interest are retrieved from the Geonames API. Here is a n example of 10 places of interest in a radius of 10 km. The useful information is the name of each place, a Wikipedia link, its position and a summary.
An example can be found here: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gcoisne3/testInterest.html .
Places of interest around Latitude: 33.74937000000001, Longitude: -84.38727:
Atlanta Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Campaign)
Latitude: 33.749, Longitude: -84.388
The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William T (…)
Miss Freedom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Freedom)
Latitude: 33.749, Longitude: -84.3881
Miss Freedom, sometimes referred to as Goddess of Liberty, is the name of the statue adorning the dome of the Georgia State Capitol since 1889. Commissioned in 1884, the hollow copper statue is painted white, weighs over 1600 lbs and is over 26 feet tall (…)
Georgia State Capitol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_Capitol)
Latitude: 33.7493, Longitude: -84.3883
The Georgia State Capitol, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, is an architecturally and historically significant building. It has been named a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the main office building of Georgia’s government (…)
Georgia State (MARTA station) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_%28MARTA_station%29)
Latitude: 33.7505, Longitude: -84.3865
Georgia State is an at-grade station on the Blue and part-time on the Green lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system located in the eastern part of Downtown Atlanta. The station is located within the James H (…)
Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Georgia_%28U.S._state%29)
Latitude: 33.7485, Longitude: -84.3891
The Supreme Court of Georgia is the highest judicial authority of the US state of Georgia. The court was established in 1845 as a three-member panel. Since 1896, the justices (increased in number to six, and then to seven in 1945) have been elected by the people, and today those elections are (…)
GSU Sports Arena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSU_Sports_Arena)
Latitude: 33.7514, Longitude: -84.3861
The Georgia State University Sports Arena is an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the home of the basketball teams of Georgia State University and hosted the badminton competition of the 1996 Summer Olympics (…)
Georgia Railroad Freight Depot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Railroad_Freight_Depot)
Latitude: 33.7517, Longitude: -84.3888
The Georgia Railroad Freight Depot (1869) the oldest building in Downtown Atlanta. It is located on the east side of Central Avenue, bordered by the MARTA and freight railroad lines on its north side. It anchors the north side of Steve Polk Plaza, which contains the old World of Coca-Cola building (…)
Georgia State University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_University)
Latitude: 33.7525, Longitude: -84.3859
Georgia State University (GSU) is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia’s four research universities (…)
List of Georgia State University people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Georgia_State_University_people)
Latitude: 33.7528, Longitude: -84.3861
This is a list of Georgia State University people. Georgia State University is an urban research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves over 32,000 students, and is one of the University System of Georgia’s four research universities (…)
Underground Atlanta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Atlanta)
Latitude: 33.7527, Longitude: -84.3901
Underground Atlanta is a shopping and entertainment district in the Five Points neighborhood of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, near the intersection of the east and west MARTA rail lines. First opened in 1969, it takes advantage of the viaducts built over the city’s many railroad tracks (…)
Individual Contributions:
Gaetan and I worked together to find good APIs and getting that data into Argon. I handled the displaying of the billboards inside of Argon. This document was developed collaboratively over the web.
Future Work:
We currently have enough information to keep the casual user entertained from time to time on long road trips. However, for short commutes in a city, this information may not be very useful and could become repetitive. Our next focus is getting more relevant information like say coffee shops, restaurants, malls, etc and display that. Also a lot of work is still required on the GUI side. Most of the GUI right now is mostly a proof-of-concept kind of GUI rather than a very neat and clean interface. We also need to identify and use ways for the user to communicate specific information with our app.
Channel:
You can test our current progress by opening the following link in Argon:
http://mimos.test.sagz.in/smartcar2.html .
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