Trippin07

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Trippin07

• Nick Campbell, Paul Giambalvo, Jason Talis,
  Patrick Winters

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What is Trippin07?

• Build a narrative of your travels.
• Mark places visited on a world map.
• Associate content with each of these places

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Customers

• The world traveler
• The tourist
• Anyone who wishes
• to keep track of their
• travels

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Customers

• David Brown, a senior animation student at NYU.
• Alex Midgley, an experienced traveler.

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Competitive Landscape

• No direct competition (popular)
• There are many applications that share some of
  the functionality of Trippin07.
• Flickr and Picassa
• Some blogging engines

• These lack the all-in-one functionality that our
  application will offer.

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Competitive Landscape
Travelblog.org
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Functional Requirements

• Plot travel locations and routes on a world map.
• The user should be able to click to place
  pushpins to mark visited locations.
• These pins can be connected with lines to denote
  routes taken.

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Functional Requirements

• The ability to create trips and organize them by
  several criteria
• Region
• Date
• Trip title

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Functional Requirements

• The ability to associate content with each point
  of interest.
• By either clicking a pushpin on the map, or
  through an Add Content page, the user can add
  photos, videos, journals, or other information to
  be associated with a trip.

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Functional Requirements

• A search content function
• The ability to use text queries to find
• media and trip items.

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Interface Requirements

• The system will be able to support multiple
  users, each with their own set of trips and
  information.
• The map used for the mapping/plotting of trips
  should have complex capabilities including search
  and zoom.
• It should be displayed in rich detail.

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Nonfunctional Requirements

• Professional Interface -The user interface should
  be visually attractive.
• Responsive Timing -The application must be
  responsive and quick to return control to the
  user. Any Internet-dependent tasks must not take
  any longer than unavoidable network latency.
• Environmental Constraints The application will
  run in the UNIX environment, utilize a relational
  database, and will require Internet access.
• Confidence - User data, media, and personal
  information must be secure. It will remain
  private unless otherwise requested by the user.

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Use Cases
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Navigate Map

• Pre-Conditions
• ? The map must contain all previously entered
  information
• Post-Conditions
• ? The state of the map will be saved when the
  user finishes his session.
• Basic Flow
• 1. The user's world map will be displayed,
  populated with all of their pushpins and routes.
• 2. To navigate the map, the user will be able to
  zoom in and out, and pan in all directions.
• 3. The map can be toggled among Map,
  Satellite, and Hybrid view.
• 4. The user will be able to place a new pushpin
  on the map. After doing so, they may associate
  this pin with an already existing trip, or create
  a new trip for it.
• 5. Routes can be drawn with tools for connecting
  pins.
• 6. Clicking on existing pins will allow a user to
  view or manage that trip.
• 7. By entering a location in the search box, the
  map will navigate to the designated location, if
  valid.

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• Pre-Conditions
• None
• Post-Conditions
• ?The trip will be saved for later access.

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• Pre-Conditions
• User must have at least one trip created
• Post-Conditions
• ? Content will retain its current state until the
  user modifies it.

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What is Still Unclear?

• Desktop or Web Application?
• Technology for creating a web app using C. Is
  using cgicc or C Server Pages a reasonable way
  to handle this?

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Questions?