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Panoramio -A Mobile Application Based on Android

Authors

Roshan Kavuri1, Swetha Pillai1, Jacob Sanjay Kumar1 Niraj Upadhayaya1 and A.Govardan2, 1JB Institute of Engineering & Technology, India and 2JNTUH, India

Abstract

Panoramio is a mobile application which allows the users to find pictures of interesting places with a radar to guide you to them, using GPS. Since the use of smart phones is gaining interest in people, panoramio was implemented as a smart phone application using Google’s Android operating system.The application starts by showing a custom map view using mobile maps. The user can pan and zoom the map to select a location. Once a search location has been selected the user taps on a location and the application starts loading all the thumbnails of pictures of all the interesting places taken in that area. By tapping on any thumbnail, information about the particular picture will be displayed. From here the user can view other photos taken by the same user or share the page. And even we can upload these new places. Show your favorite places to the world. Upload your photos to Panoramio. Upload your geolocated photos directly from the Gallery to your Panoramio account which, has following Features includes, Adds a new sharing option for any photo either taken by the built-in camera, or chosen from the gallery, Grab location from EXIF,Allow manual correction of the location.

Keywords

Android, GPS, Mobile maps, Radar, Smart Phone application

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