An interoperability mobile application for location and travel planning services in Ghana - myTroski

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Mobility and access to social, economic, and cultural opportunities are facilitated by the availability of practical location data. Practical location data are scarce in Ghana and most of Sub-Sahara Africa where cities are typically characterized by informal settlements and a lack of standard address system. The problem is compounded by limited use of indigenous languages for travel services even though the majority of the population lacks familiarity with English. This study attempts to address these issues by developing a mobile app which takes advantage of local location data integrated into OpenStreetMap through Mapbox to provide location and travel planning services in English and indigenous Akan language The developed mobile app called ‘myTroski’ provides key capabilities to describe landmark information, find nearby landmarks, search and find, travel routing and planning, GPS assisted map use, and text and audio assisted navigation. The study shows the formalizing and modernizing location data from paratransit Trotro service and landmarks to mainstream local address systems.
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用于加纳定位和旅行规划服务的互操作性移动应用程序-myTroski
实用位置数据的可用性促进了流动性和获得社会、经济和文化机会的机会。加纳和撒哈拉以南非洲的大部分地区缺乏实际的位置数据,这些城市通常以非正式定居点为特征,缺乏标准的地址系统。尽管大多数人不熟悉英语,但旅游服务使用土著语言的情况有限,这一问题更加严重。本研究试图通过开发一款移动应用程序来解决这些问题,该应用程序利用通过Mapbox集成到OpenStreetMap中的本地位置数据,以英语和土著阿坎语提供位置和旅行规划服务。开发的名为“myTroski”的移动应用程序提供了描述地标信息、查找附近地标、搜索和查找的关键功能,旅行路线和规划、GPS辅助地图使用以及文本和音频辅助导航。该研究表明,从辅助传输Trotro服务和地标到主流本地地址系统,位置数据的正规化和现代化。
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