The
Big
Idea

Provide a simple solution for friends to discover centrally-located places to meet up.

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Applying commercial routing techniques

to solve common consumer problems.

Rob Haley

Tyler Schiewe

Mike Wilburn

Why bother?

• Digital communication and planning at its historical apex (iMessage, Google Hangouts, online meeting apps...)
• Meeting in person a common next step
• This type of planning can be laborious & subjective
• Esri technology used daily by commercial customers to plan when, where, and how resources move
• Why not apply this to the consumer world?

How it works.

(what the user sees)

• A user creates or join a meetup
• Defined by: 1) a group of people, and 2) a meeting place type
• User opens meetup to reveal map view with each person's location
• Return a destination POI whose summed travel time is the least for all participants in the group

How it's done.

(what's really going on)

• Google Firebase: Firestore realtime database & authentication
• ArcGIS Enterprise with NA Server:
  OD (origin-destination) matrix geoprocessing service & solve route NA Server routing service
• ArcGIS JavaScript API is used to provide the map context and call services

Challenges.

(what held us up)

• Tyler learned the JS API entirely for this effort.
• Rob's server hosting our OD and NA services had to be restarted hours ago and mid-dev
• Operating as a three-person team

Improvement possibilities.

• Integration with existing consumer applications
• Natively built on Android/iOS using ArcGIS Runtime
• Permit selection of different user travel modes
• Use Navigator's URL scheme to launch installed app from a mobile device and navigate on device