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Abstract
World is the full of interesting places and can be confusing and overwhelming at the same time. There can be instances where people might get lost or enter unsafe areas unknowingly. To address such issues , GAP Analytics(Geolocation and Place Analytics) is an android app and a Web application that helps its users to know their current location, search for places of their interest like hotels, police-station, hospitals etc around them. Using android as its platform is benecial looking at the market share of android OS as it can reach out to many people. It will help data analysts to get statistics of activity of people around a geographic location from online dash board by maintaining the privacy of the users. Smartphones are great device which which are intelligent and if used properly, it can saves us from a lot of unpleasant situations. By using location services from android environment, this app provides location features. This app uses Google location API V2, Google Places API and Google Maps api in its android client application. On the server side it uses windows ASP.NET Web Services to serve client requests.
Introduction
World is digitizing, so is India along with it's Digital India initiative, it will be aerce battle to digitize important aspects of people's lives. People have access to internet and smartphones, so we can exploit such available infrastructure and resources to provide a personalized and context aware business, government, security and entertainment services. Our project brings location based services (LBS) through mobile computing paradigm on android platform. LBS has become a more important candidate which is a ecting user experiences due to cheap GPS hardware and smartphones being manufactured. Motivation to choose android platform is due to it's mammoth market share and a company like Google behind it. We can
reach out to maximum people through this platform.