A Short Wandering Using iWander

Short Tour of iWander

These pages will walk you through a short demonstration of iWander, presenting some if it's highlights and features.

The iWander application is started using the URL:
http://carson-city.marlboro.edu/iwander.html

Home Page (iwander.html)
This page introduces the user to the web aplication, provides a link to the pop-up user help and a link to the page that will start them wandering. (It also provides a link to the Administrator's Operations page and administrator help information.)

Click on User Help for information about the iWander database design.
Click on Start Your iWander Trip.

Welcome Page (iwander.cgi)
This page allows the user to pick a region to wander and a a vessel (mode of transportation). A name for the trip, proposed starting time and the user's name are also input.

Select a region to wander from the available regions to wander selection list. (e.g.click on the pop-up menu, slide down to Mine Falls Park and release)
Give your trip a name, like "Walk in the Park" by selecting and typing in the name input field.
Enter your name in the next input field. You can use your name or an alias (e.g. "Jacob").
Select a mode of tranportation from the pop-up list, (e.g. "Foot" makes sense for the park)
Select an estimated start time by typing it into the input text area or editing the default value (e.g. 2001-07-10 12:00:00)
Click on the Start Wandering button - and you're off ...

Start-Trip Page (starttrip.cgi)
This page displays an image of the region selected and provides a list of starting points from which to start wandering from and links to pages that describe the available starting points

Click on the Region Information Link to get a description of the region. It's possible the page that appears will provide an overview of the network of waypoints within the region (e.g. Click on Mine Falls Park .. Information)
After looking at the regions description, click on one of the Starting Point Information Links, or go ahead and select a Starting Point from the menu, (e.g. Mine Falls Whipple Street Entrance) then Click on Go to 'region'

Current Waypoint Page (waypoint.cgi)
This the page where the real wandering happens. A Virtual Wanderer can see the current waypoint, see the views from that waypoint and choose to wander to destinations that are reachable.

A full 360 ° view is not usually represented by the 5 views shown.
In order to see all the reachable destinations assocated with this waypoint, you'll usually have to Click on Pan Left (or Right. This is like turning a bit to see what's around.
You can Click on a Destination (waypoint) description link to learn more about a destination. Occasionally there might be a View Desciption link available if there's something special to be noticed about that view.
Once you decided where you want to wander to next, Select that Destination from the destination menu and Click on Go There.
Note: A reachable destination has to be visible in order to select a destination.
After wandering for a while, you can Click on Show Trip Log to see what sort of wandering you've been doing

Show Trip/Navigation Log Page (showlog.cgi)
This page shows the waypoints visited by the wanderer in a trip-log form.

The log (or wandering plan) presented shows you visual clues about the places you plan to stop at, as well as the approximate distances and estimated travel time.
Just use File .. Print .. to capture the plan for when you're ready to start your wandering.
Click on Continue Trip to continue your current wandering from the waypoint you were just at, or
Click on the Start Wandering Again icon to start a new wandering trip.

Administrator Operations Page (adminmenu.cgi)
This page presents a set of database maintenance functions. Selection of the function, via a button click, will bring up the page that will prompt for the information required to do the desired operation.

By default only the SHOW operation is allowed.
In debug, or application maintenance, mode DELETE and INSERT RECORD operations are allowed. (Debug mode mode is controlled by a congfiguration variable in the iwander.conf configuration file)
Select the name of a table whose contents you'd like to view and click on the SHOW button.
Click on INFO Administrator's Information if you would like more detail about the implementation of iWander

Start thinking about some unplanned wandering and have fun!