This past year I’ve been studying part time for a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree specialising in Computer Science at Flinders University. The focus of my studies has been my honours thesis. My thesis explored the following research question:

Is it possible to provide collaborative mapping services on mobile devices in an infrastructure independent manner?

To explore this question I developed an Android based application that could support four core objectives. They were:

1. have the users own geographic location displayed on a map;
2. add incidents, represented by a marker, onto a map;
3. be able to see the geographic location of other users of the application on the map; and
4. share details of incidents with other users of the application on the network.

The software that I developed uses the resilient Ad Hoc mesh network provided by the Serval Project to ensure that communication between instances of the application are infrastructure independent.

The thesis is available online on my Stuff by Techxplorer website.

The photo “Writing Thesis” was uploaded to Flickr by Sam Hames and used under the terms of a Creative Commons License.