Using Geolocation to Help Employees Find Classes at Qualcomm
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The document describes Qualcomm's 'ClassFinder', a geolocation-based tool to help employees locate nearby classes across its various buildings. It outlines the technical components involved, including user location data and a database that connects building information with class schedules. Future steps include promoting the tool, testing on other devices, and tracking its usage.
Using Geolocation to Help Employees Find Classes at Qualcomm
- 1. Targeted Learning:Using Geolocation to Help Employees Find Classes at QualcommB.J. SchoneJune 22, 2011
- 2. About QualcommQualcomm has dozens of buildings around the world…
- 3. ClassFinderlooks at the user’s geolocation and then shows the nearest buildings with upcoming classes.
- 8. User Location(Lat / Long)List of Buildings(Lat / Long andBuilding IDs)HTML / PHP / JavaScript / SQLPuzzle PiecesList of Classes(w/Building IDs)
- 9. User Location(Lat / Long)Puzzle Pieces – User Location
- 10. index.php
- 11. List of Buildings(Lat / Long andBuilding IDs)Puzzle Pieces – List of Buildings
- 13. Building info from IT(XML doc)MySQLdatabaseLMSClass infoBuilding infoClassFinder web siteUser locationNearest classes
- 15. Next StepsPromote ClassFinderTest on more devices / tabletsUse this technology on other sites, non-mobile?Brainstorm with co-workers and colleaguesTrack usageWho used it? Where were they? Did they follow through?
- 16. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #4: Navigator.geolocation - The key to building geolocation-enabled web sites!
- #5: Navigator.geolocation is not entirely supported by IE9…but hopefully it will be soon.
- #6: This is what the user will see when prompted for location information.
- #7: The basic code for detecting geolocation support.
- #8: If you have an address and need latitude / longitude coordinates, use tools like tinygeocoder.com or Google Maps.
- #9: It’s easy to find a formula / function to calculate the distance between points (ex. the learner and the classes). Search Google!
- #10: The highly technical flowchart.
- #11: Testing page, used to output building location based on user location.This was tested by employees in several locations to verify accuracy.