Abstract
Travelling has become an important aspect for humans in their daily life. Identifying the route for a particular location with its name only in a new area makes it very difficult for people. Even the regular navigation instructions make travelling a bit complex due to the unawareness of the route and the surrounding. But we humans have the ability to recognize and remember routes based on landmarks with their visual attributes. As a solution to this problem faced by people, this research has proposed the idea of suggesting navigation routes based on the significant landmarks that the users can easily identify due to its visible significance. This will help users navigate to certain destination with less hassle. In the process of route suggestion along with the landmark suggestion the shortest path also will be suggested for users who doesn’t require the help of landmarks to navigate. This system uses Openstreet maps and Geoserver to display the route for the user from one point to another. This solution will be a web-based solution. This new solution will ensure to make navigation much easier for travelers specially travelling to a new city.
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My sincere gratitude goes to my supervisor Mr. Cassim Farook and to the authority of Informatics Institute of Technology for the kind guidance, inspiration, suggestions and the fullest support which were given to me in completion of this research. I would also like to express my thankful words to my parents and friends who helped me in several ways to make this project successful.
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Madhushan, R., Farook, C. (2020). NavAssist-Intelligent Landmark Based Navigation System. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 69. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12388-8_6
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