Tourist Guide Information System using Google Map and GPS

Abstract

With the evolution of technology, the tourists can be effectively guided by the aid of Location Based Service of their smart phone. Solo travelling is popular in today’s touring industries and therefore mobile tourist guided system can efficiently support to solo traveler. By applying the combination of Location Based Service of the mobile phone and Google Map services, this tourist guide information system is developed. The purpose of this system is to provide user’s current location, the detailed information of the nearest places and the routes to reach their interesting nearest place. This smarter tour guide system use mobile phones’ GPS for the current location access and also use Google Maps for efficient guidance to users. The tour guide system provides real-time and location-sensitive tourist information of the Yangon region.