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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Devloping my idea

Today i have been putting together my presentation on my fuel price idea, i did find it quite hard in some parts trying to produce a semi work example of my application but it seamed to work ok.

The point of this post it to elabirate a bit more on my idea.

First things first ive decided to ditch the idea of having an option to see weather a specific petrol station had desil and petrol avaliable as i found it rather difficult for my application to find out or not, there were a few ideas but there were alot of flaws like HOW WOULD my application be able to tell if a petrol station had fuel. as each petrol station would have to upload information to a server for my application to access it and work out how much from the information given. and i doubt it would have access to that sort of information. for legal reasons etc, etc, but other than that my application has potential by combining google map with petrol price websites, a very handy tool indeed,

I did have a few problems with flash so i had to change my idea slightly for example, instead of a drop down list of counties and towns i have a text box where u type in your county and town, this was rather anoying as it would look alot more professional mabe in the future if i develop my idea alot more this sort of thing i could do. also if you made a spelling mistake it wouldnt pick it up, which would have made the drop down box better as you could only select the ones in the box and these would definatly work default. i intend for my application to use GPS (global positions system) and pinpoint your location, all you have to do is type in certain information so the online server finds the petrol stations.

Any more information i have i will post next time,

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas please let me know. even if they are negative it will help me to develop it even further.

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