A map-based place-browser for a PDA

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Title

A map-based place-browser for a PDA

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University of Waikato

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Description

This article describes PlaceBrowser, a PDA based application that allows the user of the application to navigate around an area of geographical interest, such as a city, using a zoomable, panable hierarchy of aerial images, in a fashion similar to Google Maps. The novel aspect to the work is that an area of precise interest within the map can be pin-pointed by the user by directly dragging out a rectangular area on the map. This forms the source to a spatial search that returns landmarks that...

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Research paper

Research format

Working or discussion paper

Date created

2007-10-24

Creator

Bainbridge, David / Jones, Matt / Arter, David

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/759

Related subjects

mobile searching / context aware / spatial search

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