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அனுப்புநர்: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: திங்., 1 மார்., 2021, பிற்பகல் 3:31
Subject: Project idea – Create a mobile app or website to find stalls on
any bookfair
To: <ilugc(a)freelists.org>
Chennai Book fair is a one of the mega events happening every year, with
tons of chaos. It holds around 400-600 book stalls every year. Finding
which stall is where is still a game there. They may give a pamphlet with
list of bookstalls with the stall number in very random way. no body knows
on what order the list is sorted.
If you like to visit some particular stalls, half of the time will be
wasted on finding the stalls itself.
How can we solve this issue with technology?
We can have a mobile app or website to list down all the stalls, their
stall numbers, the way stalls are arranged, with few small custom maps or
images to get info on all stalls etc.
The internet wont work on the chaotic place like bookfair, so we need to
give all the data as local data. App or site should work without internet.
Before going to bookfair, user should open the app/site to load the data
locally.
We can display the stalls order as image or we can have live map over
OpenStreepMap, if GPS works well inside the bookstalls. If we can provide
maps with GPS, it will be a great app to explore the stalls quickly.
I think the same issue will be there all international book fairs. how are
other countries are solving this problem? Is there any other open source
application for mobile app or for website? How can we design the app/site
to configure for any bookfair on the world?
We need contributors to collect book fair info, stall info and developers.
Please contribute.
Share your thoughts here or in the below issue
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/100