Modeling a Route Selection in the Virtual World

Abstract

Navigation technologies are used in various areas in our life. Nowadays, using a car navigator, we can easily find the route to our destination. Moreover with Google Street View we can not only find the route to the desti-nation but also see the full view of the destination. We can even find out that navigation technologies are used in some computer games to make players easily find their destinations in the virtual life. Navigation technology has infiltrated into our life, we cannot live without this technology.

There are different navigation technologies in our life such as American Global Position System, Chinese Bei-dou Navigation System, Google Maps and Google Street Views. Among them Google Street View provides a new concept of navigation technology. Instead of provide only vector map, this software can also providing the full-view of the route. With this function users can easily find the destination they want.

In this thesis I used Adobe Flash to create a navigation software for the M-Building of Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences. My software is similar to the Google Street views. It provided not only the vector map but also the full-view of the route.