Electronic tour guide for Android mobile platform with multimedia travel book

In this paper, a new system for positioning and multimedia reporting, named electronic tour guide, is presented. The mobile device of the system communicates with the server, from which it receives electronic tourist maps, and the GPS satellites. Each location on the map with predetermined irregular shape avoids overlap with other areas and thus it increases the accuracy of the visited location. The device is guiding the tourist using the coordinates received from the GPS signals and the objects that are preloaded as electronic maps. The main functions of the system are: (a) it is displaying the content according to user's movement, position and preferred selections; (b) it generates reports for guiding using existing date stored from the server, the current position, the previous movement and the paid services; (c) it reports and prepares the multimedia travel book based on the paid services; (d) it prepares the daily trip report from images, text and audio files downloaded from server or recorded by user; (e) it submits the recorded data for future individual, group or public usage. This paper presents the main characteristics and advantages of the new system as well as benefits for commercial usage.