Team XSquared: 2013 Apache Cassandra Hackathon at McGill University

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Let's re-embrace the beauty
on the cellphone!

Motivation

Photography is more and more important as :

1. It tells us what is important to us. 2. Photography makes us artists 3. Photography has the power to move us

App Functionality

Provide tourists the best local photos and teach them to take the same photo by providing the location, expose time, Aperture info.

Build a social network between users by allowing to share their photos.

Provide the info about nearby restaurant and places of interst.

System Architecture

Software: Android version 4.4 (API 19)

Hardware: Google Nexus II (1.2 GHz Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9)

Thanks to Shehaaz, we use RESTful api + virgil to build the communication layer for cassandra

Data Model

1. Table for users: username (primary key), password, emailfor query: query user in login phase and make new friends around the world.2. Table for photos:user_name, time, photo_name, photo, location, latitude, longitude, altitude, cellphone type. Primary key: (username, time)

Data Model

5. Table for travel agencies: name, location, photo, type, photoname, primary key (location, name)

4. Table for restaurants: photo, type, photoname, primary key(name, type)

3. Table for photos:user_name, time, photo_name, photo, location, latitude, longitude, altitude, cellphone type. Primary key: (photo_name, location)

Business Model

Two versions of products: either it is paid on purchase or the app will go with ads from google ads and microsoft ad center. (Guarantee user experience)

Collaborate with travel agencies and restaurants. We may share the profit.

Develop publisher-writer model. People get refunded by uploading good photo. And the company can sell the photos while protecting privacy.

User Interface

User Interface