Tour-Guide: Providing Location-Based Tourist Information on Mobile Phones

Mobile phone has become a powerful platform for people-centric computing. It is now a necessary part of everyday life for many people. A growing number of mobile computing applications are on the rise, centered around the user´s daily life. In those emerging applications, location dependent systems have been identified as an important component. This paper presents the architecture and implementation of such a location-based application, called Tour-Guide. Implemented on iPhone, the system is designed to provide tour information services; therefore people can get tour guidance information that they need anytime and anywhere.