UQU GIS-based Navigation System

Umm al Qura University is one of the largest universities in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, having more than one hundred thousand students. The university is situated in a suburb area of Makkah city; around 10 km away from the residential areas, and because of its geographic location, most of the people who are either students, professors, staff, workers, or even visitors enter the university compound daily for different purposes; like studying, teaching, working or perhaps just for a tour, and they all get into the university using vehicles. So, because of the vast area of the university which embeds tens of faculty buildings, scientific and technical research centers, and many other facilities, many students and visitors cannot reach their desired locations at an appropriate time. The problem gets doubled in the first few days of the university startup, and that's because of freshmen students' enrollment. To solve this problem, an online navigation system is built to help people find their destinations quickly. The platform acts as an outdoor kind of navigation system that shows the routes for buildings based on the user's search input or selection, then relatively the system will show the exact vehicle routes to the predefined appropriate parking lot, with a pedestrian path stretching to the destination and some statistical information about the buildings along with some panoramic photos of the classes are shown on the right side of the map.