VISUALIZATION FOR CITY GUIDES AND APPLICATIONS

7th International Scientific Conference - SGEM2007, www.sgem.org, SGEM2007 Conference Proceedings/ ISBN: 954-918181-2, June 11-15, 2007

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, the requirement of implementing the activities in social life and
environmental introducing purposes with city guides is arised especially
parallel to the development of computer technologies. Content of a city guide
should include necessary and adequate introduction information about the
relevant region rather than its using for addressing. After the interests of social
events and human activities about a region determined firstly, giving answers to
these details with a city guide in computer environment should be investigated.
These requirements may extend textual expression about a historical or
touristical place, introducing videos or from an animated advertisement to all
types of spatial informations. In this paper, a part of city guide Project relating
to Konya city which has the biggest area in Turkey is explained. The aim of the
Project is to perform a useful guidance system that provides context-sensitive
multimedia information to city visitors during their trips by using multimedia
techniques which bring the computer systems more useful and organizing the
social activities of peoples living in the city. For this point of view the system
which prepared with Delphi programming language and providing locationbased
content information to users is introduced.

Keywords: Visualization, City guide, Delphi and Active X, Historical heritage.