FUA staff develops app to ease navigating buildings and offices
By Ahmad Deedat Zakari
A staff of Federal University, Kashere, has developed a moblie app to aid lecturers and visitors navigate their way in the university.
The genius staff, Usman Shehu Muhammad, hailed from Fagge, Kano revealed his technological exploitation in a Facebook post on Monday.
Mr Shehu created the Federal University of Kashere Mobile GIS, a mobile software that aids navigation in the university.
Muhammad said in a post: “I’m to introduce a newly developed Android Application, called FUK Mobile GIS. The purpose was to make it easy for visitors, students or lecturers to identify and navigate buildings within the University.
“The application interface is simple to use, it displays the University logo and gives a lists of drop down building names which you can click to search for a building.
Each search you make it displays the hole University buildings in the map highlighting the needed building also a fastest rout either by car or by foot is calculated, identified and drown on the searched map, the map also shows the picture and attribute information about the building like the name of the building, address, distance by foot or road taking.”
He also revealed that the said app would soon be uploaded to Playstore.