اسم الباحث :
Sameer Yaseen Department of Computer Science, Yemen Academy for Graduate Studies Sameer.yaseen8@gmail.com
Abstract Our choices in everyday transactions are based on nearest places. When we are hungry we look for the nearest restaurant. When we are driving and want to park we just look for the nearest park. From people past experience of places they can identify the nearest place, but they cannot check the place availability. In this application we provide a solution for service availability. We build a web application based on user location and using Google Map API, PHP, and MySQL database to help in finding the nearest and available services around user. This system has been tested and it shows a promised results. Keywords: Location based services; location based search, Google Map API, GPS, and GIS People usually prefer nearest places for taking services. Location Based Services (LBSs): are applications or services that provide services depend on devices locations [1]. Searching nearest services is possible today through many applications [2], [3], [4]. Looking for available services take long time and effort, since availability is a sophisticated problem. No single solution fit all service providers. Each service provider has its own measurements for availability. For example ATM machines availability measurement is the amount of money still inside the machine. Restaurants availability measurements depend on the working hours and number of customers that could be served at the same time. So we need a method for checking whether the customer is going to take the service looking for or not before moving to the place. As illustrated in figure 1 there are many service providers around us. Some of those service providers are available, and some of them are not. Each color represent service category. None available services also represented in a different color. So nearest place is not always the best place for getting services. We need to know place availability for better user location awareness. Here are some researches related to this problem. Nearest Available Parking lot Application (NAPA) is an application based on GPS system to help in finding the nearest parking lot in the campus for professors, students, and visitors [2].
سنة النشر :
2016
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