A Tourism Information System for Rural Areas based on a Multi Platform Concept
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Almer A., Schnabel T., Stelzl H., Stieg J., Luley P.
Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg The 6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical, 2006
Tourism information is predominantly based on geographically related
information and therefore, the tourism and leisure industries are
currently searching for ways how to explore the potential of technologies
for presenting geographical data. In this paper a concept and its
realization for a multi-platform solution for a geo-multimedia tourism
information system are briefly described. In general the system is
targeting on two different user groups, the tourism boards as service
providers and the tourists as end-users. The concept covers an efficient
data management for the service providers and state of the art visualization
techniques for online, offline and mobile solutions. These cover
the 2D as well as the 3D visualization of geo related tourism information
and also interfaces to third party platforms. Such platforms like
Google Earth and Google Maps became even more important in the last
year due to their extensive dissemination.
Keywords: ourism, information management, 2D/3D geo-visualization, mobile devices, multimedia, multiplatform, interactive maps, virtual database, Google Earth, Google Maps, virtual landscape