IDEA: MyTravel, TOILET-TOMTOM
Leaders: WP6, Đurđica Marković (Meteo-Info), Antje Parnitzke (DLR)
Description
My Travel Toilet Tom-Tom service is offered to all drivers and travellers. It gives a driver / traveller the possibility to find information on availability of toilets along a planned route, with particular impact on places for disabled persons and mothers with small children. It could also give the driver / traveller possibility to check the other resting possibilities at chosen place. Although My Travel Toilet Tom-Tom idea could seem a little bit frivolous, the service will have impact on the state of mind of the driver, and thus reduce driver’s nervousness, inattentiveness, uneasiness, and so reduce the risk of incidents. My Travel Toilet Tom-Tom could be integrated in some other Tom-Tom applications regarding travel planning.
Technical approach
Tom-Tom mobility solutions offer their users possibility to deal with many mobility issues at lower cost and without need for a complex implementation to carry out.
Implementation of My Travel toilet Tom-Tom idea requires at least further elements:
- Easily accessible application with road map of assigned area (town, region, country... cross - border )
- Database with all available toilets / resting facilities along the assigned area with update function and the search function providing information on available toilets / resting facilities along a specified route
- The GPS receiver with Bluetooth technology to eliminate the need for connecting cables and a high performance GPS antenna to ensure the best possible reception wherever the driver / traveller goes
- Subscription model to information flow
Geographical scope
My Travel Toilet Tom-Tom service’s assignment is mostly local and regional. But, as a part of some other Tom-Tom services, it can be used even more widely.
Data Needs
There is a need for spatial data coverage for the application which would be used for potential My Travel Toilet Tom-Tom service. Database should consist of facilities by further categorization:
- by position
- by purpose
- by size
- by working time
Raw known data can be used directly, but has to be updated regularly.
Links
TomTomFree - POI
TomTom - Public Toilet information for Australia
In July 2009 the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C has released an update of the Geolocation API for client-side devices. It reports the client (e.g. mobile devices such as PDAs and smartphones) location using a range of sources, such as IP address, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth MAC address, RFID, Wi-Fi connection location, or device GPS and GSM/CDMA cell IDs. The location is returned with a given accuracy depending on the best location information source available. Having a current location is the basis for creating services as described in this idea. As a demonstration of this kind of service there is now an operational ROADIDEA web site for a point rainfall prediction in Holland. It uses rainfall prediction 1 by 1 km grid data up to two hours ahead to predict the amount of rainfall on the location of the device that connects with the internet. The device can be a mobile phone, or laptop, or any other device that has a web browser that supports the GeoLocation API. For more information on this see http://www.roadidea.eu/pilots/pages/pilot6.aspx.
DISCUSSION AREA
http://www.poifriend.com/category.php?id=14450