Week Five

Week Five Status:

• Floor plans obtained
• Started graphically modifying floor plans

                                                                                                                                                                         

In week five, floor plans were obtained for 49 Drexel buildings. These floor plans include academic buildings, the library, and residential buildings. Unfortunately, not all of the academic building floor plans include room numbers. This is an integral part of our application, so further research may have to be done to map out the rooms. Special thanks to Kim Miller in University Facilities for making these plans available.  

Progress has been made on modifying the floor plans in Photoshop. Classrooms on each floor will be highlighted and the room numbers will be written in large characters to make them easily visible, similar to the figure below.

 

After a discussion with Dr. Char, we learned that an application with essentially one building that displays floor plans will be sufficient for this project because of the limited amount of time. This is contingent upon the fact that we would be able to reproduce all of the other buildings on campus with the same out of work required for the initial building (i.e. the amount of work would increase linearly, not exponentially).

The application will still show relevant information, such as department and office locations, and hours. This information will be searchable through a bar at the top of the application.