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Development of a Tourist Information Service Through Geolocation

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Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies

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A fairly common problem for tourists visiting a city is finding monuments of interest that are close to where they are. Normally, they resort to the use of guides or maps, with the limitations that this entails. This article describes an application that aims to facilitate a tourist’s visit to a city using mobile geolocation. The implemented system consists of a web application from which a database is maintained with all the monuments of a city and the associated information, and an Android app. The latter is used by tourists to retrieve monuments and places of interest from the database that are close to them using the latitude and longitude obtained by mobile geolocation. In this way, the tourist has a list of all the nearby monuments, and for each monument, he has useful information and resources such as audios, documents or images.

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I would like to thank David Rodríguez Marco for developing the application.

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  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y Computación. Calle Profesor José García Santesmases, 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Antonio Sarasa-Cabezuelo

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gnanamani College of Technology, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India

    G. Ranganathan

  2. Ryerson Communications Lab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Xavier Fernando

  3. ISEG, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

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Sarasa-Cabezuelo, A. (2023). Development of a Tourist Information Service Through Geolocation. In: Ranganathan, G., Fernando, X., Rocha, Á. (eds) Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 383. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4960-9_50

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