Mobile solution for gas price collection : Based on data from a Finnish gas price website
Kuvshinov, Kirill (2017)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201704275537
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201704275537
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This project claims to address the common problem of providing drivers with actual gas prices. No app studied seems able to retrieve today’s gas data only and show them in a user-friendly fashion. Some include earlier data, others rely on community feeds; still oth-ers reveal prices only along chosen navigation routes. This paper offers no universal methods to address all the challenges. It is rather an educational attempt to solve some of them from a point of view of a student and a driver.
As the subject of this project, my own approach is described at length. Generally, it in-cludes two Android apps facilitating each other, and both contributing to own database. Thus, only current fuel prices are shown if any, the popular locations' details are upload-ed to own database, and historical data kept for future reference. Navigating the driver to the nearest gas station of choice used to be part of the project, yet recent improvements by Google Maps may have invalidated the old certificate.
In addition, the mobile solution features own price updates management (auto or manual mode) and exploits www.polttoaine.net as a solid price-quoting platform. As nothing re-sulted from my own attempts to contact the platform admins on trainee cooperation, scraping and parsing methods are used in this project (for educational purposes only).
As the subject of this project, my own approach is described at length. Generally, it in-cludes two Android apps facilitating each other, and both contributing to own database. Thus, only current fuel prices are shown if any, the popular locations' details are upload-ed to own database, and historical data kept for future reference. Navigating the driver to the nearest gas station of choice used to be part of the project, yet recent improvements by Google Maps may have invalidated the old certificate.
In addition, the mobile solution features own price updates management (auto or manual mode) and exploits www.polttoaine.net as a solid price-quoting platform. As nothing re-sulted from my own attempts to contact the platform admins on trainee cooperation, scraping and parsing methods are used in this project (for educational purposes only).