Idea for Learn from the map application

[Nadeem Ansari]

Hi,

 I am Nadeem Ansari, 3rd year Electrical Engineering student from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. I have prior experience in Android app development and would like to propose an idea for "Learn from map" application.  I have worked on Location API before and this is the link to that application. I have made 5 other Android application including one game. 

   Now, I would describe my idea of making this application-

1. Questions will flash on top of the screen, for which the answer will be a location. The screen displays Google Map. The user has to tap on that location to get the right answer. That location will be pinned.
2. User can filter out questions on the basis of any country or continent or his/her location.
3. User can navigate anywhere from his/her location. Routes will be drawn on the Google Map itself.
4. With the help of Push notifications we can push a particular geographical information everyday(or twice/thrice).
5. We can maintain the scores on our database and show a user how his/her Facebook friends are scoring. This will increase competition and fun.
   

I would be glad to hear any loopholes in this idea or any suggestion. This is my Stack Overflow link.

Regards. 

[Pankaj Nathani]

Hi Nadeem,

Thanks for your interest in Learn the map application. 

 

1. Questions will flash on top of the screen, for which the answer will be a location. The screen displays Google Map. The user has to tap on that location to get the right answer. That location will be pinned.
2. User can filter out questions on the basis of any country or continent or his/her location.
3. User can navigate anywhere from his/her location. Routes will be drawn on the Google Map itself.
4. With the help of Push notifications we can push a particular geographical information everyday(or twice/thrice).
5. We can maintain the scores on our database and show a user how his/her Facebook friends are scoring. This will increase competition and fun.
   

We don't plan to have a server side implementation for the scope of this year's GSoC. Rest looks fine, it seems you have understood the application well.   

[Nadeem Ansari]

Its fine that you don't have a server side implementation. But still we can implement push notifications. We can use Airbop which provides server for push messaging. I have successfully implemented it before. What do you say about this?

[Pankaj Nathani]

We can use Airbop which provides server for push messaging. I have successfully implemented it before. What do you say about this?

I will check more details on Airbop, but on first look it seems like a paid service to me. You can mention this in your proposal and we will take a call accordingly if you get selected to work on this.

[Nadeem Ansari]

It's free up to 1000 registrations. Is paid service a problem?

[Pankaj Nathani]

 

It's free up to 1000 registrations. Is paid service a problem?

In a world of 'Free and Open Source Software'... paid is not welcome :)

We can try out the service and see if it is useful though.