Yeliu Geo-Park Mobile Tourism Guide

PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 17, 2009 -
Yeliu is a famous scenic attraction on the coast of northern Taiwan. A good mobile tourism guide device can help tourists to understand more about the natural background and legends of these beautiful rocks and natural scenery.

SuperGeo Technologies Inc. develops a GPS-navigation-integrated electronic guide system by using SuperGIS Mobile Engine, which is designed as a SDK (Software Development Kit) for program designers and system developers to perform further development. Constructed on .NET Compact Framework, it can quickly create various GIS applications and is able to run on all .NET CF supportive platforms, including desktop PC and intelligent devices. In the process of the developing, all the built-in .NET CF components are able to be used, and so are the hundreds of components and controls provided by SuperGIS Mobile Engine; the developers’ different demands can thus be fully satisfied.

GPS plus mobile GIS is the key technology for this case. GPS can retrieve the current position of a tourist in the park, whereas mobile GIS shows the spatial information of the park, such as the location of thematic rocks and recreational facilities. With the user-friendly interface, tourists can query any scenic points and listen to detailed introduction of the scenic spot on the mobile tourism device. Besides English version, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions are available for this tour guide system.

The mobile device will detect the scenic spots within a fixed distance from the tourist and any scenic spots within this distance will pop-up automatically. The determination of this range between the thematic rocks and the tourist is a trial process. Many rocks are located close to each other. For this case study, the optimum range to activate the scenic information is approximately 10-20 meters. If there are multiple points within this range, the information window will show one at one time.

The case is implemented and executed in the Yeliu service area. Tourists can rent the device from the tourist center and walk around the park with it. For future expansions, the idea of mobile tourism guide device can look into more advanced development and implement more flexible instruments, such as packing the entire system onto a single SD-card. This system has a great potential to profit both geological tourism and park management.

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