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of automatically integrating a variety of information that is relevant to the
user's itinerary such as pictures, locations, route, and time. Eventually the
information about the trip is retrieved by the Pocket PC and then uploaded
to the server for advanced editing.
Instead of a user's time-consuming effort to organize and integrate the
information, our service is able to analyze the data and collect additional,
related information on the Internet to help the user efficiently finish his
or her travel notes. Figure 13.7 illustrates the middle column as the main
area for the user to edit his travel experience with text or multimedia files.
The left-hand side calendar allows the user to select the date during his
travel and display corresponding traveling data that has been stored in
the server accordingly. For example, Figure 13.7 shows that the user selects
March 12th and the pictures taken on that day will be displayed and cat-
egorized according to the different locations. Furthermore, the day's itin-
erary is mapped out on the right-hand side. Utilizing functions of Google
Map, we combine the route formation traced during the user's travel and
Google map APIs to draw the day's route with colored lines. The Web sites
that are relevant to the user's visited places are also provided as referenced
information.
This on-line travel topic management service eficiently organizes and
integrates all related traveling information. It provides users convenient
editing application to record what they really want to remember filtering
through relevant information and discarding everything else.
Figure 13.7
The interfaces of travel topics manager.
