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User Personas

• Mike Peyson
  • Age: 55
  • Status: Family of 4 children
  • Problem: Moved House doesnt know best fishing or trail locations
  • Goal: Wants an app that will tell him what kind of fish and trail location details in his area
• Jimmy Neutron
  • Age: 34
  • Status: Single
  • Problem: Wants to start hiking as a hobby but doesnt know good spots
  • Goal: Wants an app that will give him trail location details and images so he can find good trail locatons
• Ash Ketchup
  • Age: 26
  • Status: College, single
  • Goal: Wants to start camping and 4 wheel driving with friends
  • Problem: doesnt know what parks he can both camp in and 4 wheel drive in

Criteria

• Prescribed Criteria
  • Uses two open data sets
  • Propose an application
  • Help either the community or business operate better
• Self Determined Criteria
  • Easily Usable and Requires Minimal User input
  • Very clean and easy to read and interact interface
  • Helps the community better locate and interact with national parks and trails
  • Promotes Getting outdoors by making it easier to identify the best travel locations

Exploring the Problem

• Social
  • Encourages community to get outdoors more
  • Allows people to find places they can camp for holidays
  • Helps people new to 4x4 and camping find good places to go
  • Allows people to find good parks in their area whilst they cant travel
• Environmental
  • Gets people outdoors and living with nature instead of using electricity or making rubbish sitting at home
• Economic
  • Saves money on travelling expensive holidays

Data

• Data Security
  • Encrypt all Payment and Password Information
  • Securely store all personal information
  • Dispose of any unused or irrelevant informaton
• Data Acquisition
  • Use data verification methods like checking valid emails
  • Retrieve data through secure user forms on the app
• Data Sets
  • https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-sa-4df53d6a-e9b0-4e20-a533-a04447db4876/details?q=trails Includes a wide range of trail map data within the queensland area
    • Data Type: comes in shp, kmz and geojson file formats allowing for great usability and easy mapping overlay
    • Data Reliability: As government data the information supplied by this dataset is very reliable and is updated very regularly
  • https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-66fdcf38-d506-4717-808f-dd4f6849f8a4/details?q=trails Includes all trail data for the noosa area
    • Data Type: comes in shp, kmz and geojson file formats allowing for great usability and easy mapping overlay
    • Data Reliability: As council data the information supplied by this dataset is very reliable and is updated very regularly
  • There is over 50 more datasets like the two above which heavily detail trailing locations around Queensland, NSW and Victoria providing a great mapping variety which can be easily adapted for the application
  • https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/parks-a-z This website provides a large amount of data listing all park locations and camping, swimming permissions available at those locations
    • Data Type: The data is purely listed in list like structure on a government website and provides an almost boolean type data information format for activities available in park areas. This data could be easily converted into a new database
    • Data Reliability: As government data the information supplied by this dataset is very reliable and is updated very regularly

User Experience

• App Design
  • Features
    • Details allowed activities at parks
    • Shows all the park entrances and trails in your area
    • allows you to filter park options by the activities allowed
  • Aesthetics
    • minimal layout clutter
    • Natural and simple colour scheme
    • minimal buttons for easy results
    • symbolised buttons
• Usability
  • Larger fonts making content easy to read