Ithaca Map

Description

Ithaca Map is a location based map services that resembles Google Map, including zooming in and out the map, moving the map, auto-completion enabled search, finding shortest path, and category search.

How to Run

OCaml 4.06 and Opam must be installed.

1. Install dependencies, run:
   make install-dep

2. Build the modules required by server and start server, run:
   make server

3. Build gui, open another terminal window, run:
   cd gui
make

4. Open index.html from gui/ in your web browser.

Key Features

1. Draggable / Zoomable interactive map for Ithaca

2. Location search with autocompletion

3. Location search result pinpointing

4. Graphical navigation

5. Attractions recommendation by category

Data

All data is downloaded from OpenStreetMap.org

Acknowledgements

The CSS styles for GUI are borrowed from the skeleton code of a class project but our GUI is entirely coded in OCaml. The tile images are made possible by OpenStreetMap under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.