Our places are geographic. Georeference, GPS, Google Maps, Open Street Maps, Foursquare, LBS

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1 Università degli Studi di Bergamo Area didattica di Lingue e Letterature straniere Progettazione e gestione dei sistemi turistici / Planning and Management of Tourism Systems Centro Studi per il Turismo e l'interpretazione del Territorio (CeSTIT) Our places are geographic. Georeference, GPS, Google Maps, Open Street Maps, Foursquare, LBS Roberto Peretta UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers Lecture #7. Wednesday, December 11, 2013

2 Databases and social networks: the Web 2.0 What are we talking about? 1. Georeference 2. GPS 3. Google Maps vs. Open Street Maps 4. Foursquare 5. LBS UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #4 2 UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7

3 Georeference According to Wokipedia, to georeference something means to define its existence in physical space. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 3

4 Longitude and latitude According to Wokipedia, a geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on the Earth to be specified by a set of numbers or letters. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 4

5 A longitude and a latitude Any place can be defined by its longitude and latitude. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 5

6 POIs Positions detected through satellites (again just coordinates: longitude and latitude) are read by data systems where thousands of coordinates of Points of Interest (POIs) have been previously stored like for Google Maps or Nokia phones. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 6

7 The Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. It is maintained by the United States government and is freely accessible by anyone with a GPS receiver. Current GPS-based devices include in car navigation system (like Tom Tom) and increasingly smartphones like the iphone or Android-based mobile phones. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 7

8 or GPS UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 8

9 Coordinates on Google Maps Coordinates can be read through Google Maps (though there are many coordinate systems, so that coordinates for a location differ in different systems ) UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 9

10 Google Maps, Open Street Map Google Maps, currently the most diffused proprietary map system, and and somehow opposed to Open Street Map, an open source map system. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 10

11 Foursquare Foursquare, a social network for mobile users. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 11

12 Foursquare sample - 1 UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 12

13 Foursquare sample - 2 UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 13

14 Location-Based Services Indeed, there are seamless connections among locations tourist locations, too! their geographical g representation on the Web (on Google Maps, or on Foursquare ) and your customers mobile phones. This is very interesting from a tourist point of view. 1. Your website can use Google Maps to provide your customers with drive directions to your business. 2. Destinations can provide location-based information on their heritage and tourist services. 3. Destinations can provide such location-based info through mobile devices like smartphones. UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 14

15 Proximity, Language, and Speech There s more to be considered. Proximity. Tourists equipped with up-to-date smartphones can get relevant information on the POIs they are physically y approaching (museums, hotels, etc.), by the very fact they are approaching them. Language. Pieces of text designed to deliver information through smartphones should be devised and written in order to be easily perhaps automatically translatable under different cultures. Speech. Due to ergonomic limits that are part and parcel with smartphones, information is likely to be delivered less as readable text than as voice. In the tourist information world, too, Text-to-Speech may become more popular than it is today. (Tablets, however, may be offering a solution to the question posed by ergonomic limits.) UniBg :. IT for Tourism Managers.:. Roberto Peretta.:. #7 15