Smart Travel Guide for Android-Enabled Devices

Abstract: This is an era of smartphones. Nowadays Smartphones usage has become quite popular among the masses. There are quite a lot of android applications available in the market almost in every field. So this paper intents to develop an android app� that acts as a smart tourist guide for the users. In Traditional methods, a� problem� is� seen� that� the� travellers� do not� get� exact information while travelling and also the information is not provided on time. The app overcome this drawback by providing convenience to� the� user� while� travelling. The app serves following purposes: User� can find� a� companion to share the vehicle(car-pooling),share GPS location and track location of person in friendlist, decide� between� paths� suggested by� the� application� on� basis� of� time,� distance, find help in case of any emergency, help the user when he/she is in unknown region ,maintain history of travelling.The app aims to provide detailed Maps and GPS location tracking so users� can� understand better� and can� take proper decisions. The travellers can communicate with each other by sending notifications of their GPS location through SMS to other users.�

The� app works based on the principle of Near Neighbor Join algorithm to calculate distance between two nodes and to a given input node finding a set of nearest nodes using a join function.

Keywords: Android, Google Maps, GPS, kNN Join, MapReduce , Near Neighbor Join.