Project progress - Northern Periphery Programme

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Project progress
Our project TG4NP finally received
our Grant Letter, after one year of
facing different challenges and unforeseen obstacles.
First the challenge of fulfilling the
merge of the two projects TN-Mobile
and MOvE.
Second the challenge of adding Norway and Greenland to our partnership and finally to deal with the obstacle of a withdrawal of one partner
in Northern Ireland.
Project status Skellefteå
We have been active in the technology development and at our project
meeting in Iceland all partners also
agreed on adapting similar starting
page layout of their services.
We have had a number of local
meetings both with other project
initiatives and stakeholders in order
to keep everyone abreast of what is
happening in our area.
Status of the Greenlandic project
As of mid october the Greenlandic
TG4NP partner has been granted
permission, by Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen (kms.dk the official mapping organisation of Denmark), to use digital
map-data for the Arctic Circle Trail
(ACT) and map-data from another
trail in South Greenland so the app
will now include two trails. The one in
South Greenland is the hiking trail
between Narsarsuaq and Narsaq. We
are working together with Destination Arctic Circle (DAC), which will
help with Points of Interest (POI),
geographical data, pictures etc.
Project Status Kemi Tornio. Gathering
information about the development
tools that could be used in the project. Testing the tools and selecting
the proper development environment. Testing of the development
tools and operating systems. Involving
a student group to develop a pilot
application for TG4NP. Starting the
development of the pilot with the
student group.
The West Regional Authority , Galway, is actively developing a Mobile
Tourism App for a Walking and Cycling
Route associated with the “Hymany
Way” which is located in a remote
and peripheral area, not normally
associated with tourism.
A number of Mobile Platforms will be
covered including iPhone, Android
and will be available free to the end
user. It will replace the need for printed material such as Maps, Guides and
Brochures as it will use GPS and
Google Maps.
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Project Partners
Greenland Guide
Galway Guide
Project status North Karelia.
First testing platform of new TG4NP
North Karelia product was the Ilosaarirock mobile guide in summer 2011.
TG4NP was active part of this production because testing possibilities of
downloadable mobile guiding in certain non 3G area.
Besides the testing mobile guiding in
Ilosaarirock, the production team has
prepared first pilot of TG4NP (called
Hattuvaara MobiTrail) during the summer and autumn.
Northern Ireland Guide
Norwegian Guide
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Project progress
Project Status University of Ulster.
The University of Ulster team have
decided to develop an app for the
Mussenden Temple and Downhill
Demesne tourist location. We have
just finished our draft tender to invite
applications to provide technical support
Project Status Iceland
Bifröst University (Retail Centre) is
developing a Mobile Tourism App for
Local food & fashion sold in the rural
areas of Iceland. A number of Mobile
Platforms will be covered but the
technology platform has not been
decided yet. Around 30 companies
have been selected to form a pilot
group that will cooperate with Bifröst
University (Retail Centre) in design
and testing of the App. Two master
students will cover the two areas: 1)
Local food 2) Fashion & handicraft in
their thesis and take full part in the
development of the App and further
surveys and testing of the customer
side. support.
Project status Norway
The Western Norway Research Institute with its local partners is developing a hiking guide. We are dependent on large amounts of information
which we are helping local destination
companies and similar organisations
to collect. To facilitate better information collection we have helped make
a tool for better GPS tracks, "average
tracks". Planning, and development of
the mobile application which will be
web based is in it's infancy, and on
track.
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Project Partners
Greenland Guide
Galway Guide
Project Status ERNACT, Donegal.
Meeting and follow-up with local
authorities (Derry City Council and
Donegal County Council) and other
relevant stakeholders re services
development. 4 Services have been
identified. Development plan scoped.
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Norwegian Guide
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Planned activities
Skellefteå will continue to work with
the development of service for the
Byske River, meetings with stakholders and our technical developer
continues.
North Karelia will be finishing the
first main pilot Hattuvaara MobiTrail
(ready in November 2011) and
starting work with the main pilot in
Vuonislahti-Koli area.
Mobile conference and partner
meeting in March 2012.
Kemi Tornio, development of the
Pilot application continues with
meeting with the tourist companies
in the Ylläs area. Starting to create
the final application involving a company/developers to plan and develop the final application. Co-operation
with Rural Retail Project together
with Ylläs area companies who are
involved in both projects.
West Regional Authority, Galway
will shortly be meeting with the Technology Company to further advance development of the App and
decide on links to relevant websites.
Greenland will start testing the app
in the ACT area early spring 2012,
together with DAC. We have also
been granted permission to use mapdata for the South Greenland Trail
(SGT) between the towns of
Narsarsuaq and Narsaq, we will go
forward with similar activities in
spring 2012.
Iceland , The development of the
App continues with meeting with
the selected tourist companies
selling local food & fashion
(handicraft). We will go over the
survey we did with the selected
companies and decide the main
design criteria for the App. Parallel
to the design phase we study the
possible technology platforms
available. We will look at both the
applications already available in the
market but also study other
possibilities like open source
platforms (OpenStreetMap) and
the applications and methods the
other TG4NP partners will test/use.
Selecting the technology platform
will follow this study.
Norway: Information collection,
and working with our local partners
is ongoing. We will make more
connections with developers attached to the OpenStreetMap community, and work to align our work
to local and regional tourism strategies and organisations, in addition
to the Semantic Sognefjord project.
ERNACT,Donegal will carry on with
the procurement competition for
their planned technology, which
will help them to find and select a
successful service developer.
University of Ulster is planning to
meet with the local council and the
National Trust heritage body soon
to discuss integration of marketing
our service with what they have on
offer. Ongoing work on deciding
and defining content for the app
continues.
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I mp o r t a n t d a t e s
Meeting in Joensuu, Finland 1314 of march 2012.
Contacts:
Lead Partner:
Project Manager: Ellinor Berglund
[email protected]
LULEÅ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY:
Project Manager: Lars Furberg
[email protected]
KEMI TORNIO UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED
SCIENCES:
Project Manager: Yrjö Koskenniemi
[email protected]
NORTH KARELIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED
SCIENCES::
Project Manager: Timo Rui
[email protected]
REGIONAL COUNSIL OF NORTH KARELIA
Project Manager: Pasi Lamminluoto
[email protected]
WEST REGIONAL AUTHORITY, GALWAY
Project Manager: Mary Molloy
[email protected]
ERNACT, DONEGAL:
Project Manager: Caitriona Strain
[email protected]
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, NORTHERN IRELAND:
Project Manager: Helen Jackson
[email protected]
WESTERN NORWAY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Project Contact: Guttorm Flatabø,
[email protected]
BIFROST UNIVERSITY, ICELAND:
Project Manager: Emil Karlsson
[email protected]
DESTINATION OF ARTIC CIRCLE, GREENLAND
Project Manager: Mads Lumholt
[email protected]