Developing a tour guiding information system for tourism service using mobile GIS and GPS techniques

Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 49-58

  Chu, Tzu How ^a   Lin, Meng Lung ^b   Chang, Chia Hao ^a   Chen, Cheng Wu ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ALETHEIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Geopark; Global positioning system; Location based services; Tour guiding system

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; GEOPARK; GLOBAL POSITIONING; GUIDING INFORMATION; GUIDING SYSTEMS; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MOBILE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE GIS; TOURISM SERVICES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 79960976073     PISSN: 19763700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4156/aiss.vol3.issue6.6     Document Type: Article

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