mGourmet was the online part of my diploma thesis. The thesis itself dealt with Location Based Services and showed an example on how these services could be used on a mobile phone.
A sample application, to be installed on a mobile phone, was developed with J2ME. The sample application looked for restaurants within a particular range from the users current location and compiled a list of restaurants, cafes, pubs etc. nearby. Upon request, the user was able to retrieve more information about the restaurant, e.g. address, phone number, opening hours. Additionally, the user was able to rate the restaurant.
To maintain the restaurant data, the online part of mGourmet was created. It served the following purposes:
The data transfer between the web server and the mobile application was done with XML.
The site was hosted by the Information Services of my university, but went offline as soon as I graduated.
