Alexi_Jameson
ymmij
Ah, that sounds like it would be quite an involved app to write, but it'd be super cool to have, considering people get lost in those conventions quite easily.
Mmhm it was designed so that you could put any map in there. You could do it for a shopping mall or a department store, an art exhibition, etc.
But it was just a small project we did for a class that mainly focused on the creation of web applications. I really ought to take what we learned and apply it to something better.
There were many way better projects. A friend of mine made an app that basically had you share food pictures like instagram, except it was all about food. whee Their graphics were pretty advanced and it was well-designed. I felt like it's something a lot of people would use.
One problem we faced was determining how we could convince a company to adopt this application for their event. Problem is, event designers often have their information in other databases or already have their own system, and so we found that convincing companies to use the application was really the biggest hurdle. They just didn't have the manpower or the time to adopt a new technology.
Do you guys generally have to convince companies to adopt your software or do they come to you? Ah, yah, that's definitely a problem. We have a team dedicated to getting the data into the db the way that it should be and maintaining some of that stuff. Companies suck at sending you info in the format you want them to. I think if you wrote an API to manage their data, they'd be more willing to use that than to pull out the data and format it in the way you want it to. Not sure why its more work to format it when putting it into an excel worksheet than it is when feeding it to an api, but companies are dumb....