A geolocator is an application web that allows you to know the location of those people who are part of the UOC community, for example: classmates, partner of studies, consultants, etc.

The main target of a geolocator is that anybody can see which students are near his o her own location in order to meet a classmate, or those people that have common subjects.

Know the location of people don’t break the privacy of data due to the following reasons:

• When a user connects to an application, it will ask if her o his wants to share her o his location or not.
• The application introduces a deviation about the location so we will never know the exact location of people which share their data. It is important that the deviation of position is made randomly by a distance interval in order not to easy calculate the exact position.

The application running:

The web page contains three tabs:

• The first tab is to show if I share my location or not. In case that I’m not sharing my location I will have a link to give permission to share my location coordinates and a link to read the conditions of confidentiality, however, if I’m sharing my location, the application will have to give the possibility to stop sharing the geolocation.
• The second tab is the main tab. If I click on the second tab, I will see the location of people of the selected profile on the map. When I click on this tab, the application shows me a dropdown list with the profiles that I can see. Then I can select which profiles I want to see located on the map. When I select a profile, I will see the location of people that are sharing their location. On the map, the other users will be represented by a blue doll and myself will be represented by a black doll. If I want to know more about a person I will click on the doll that represents her or his and information will appear about this user: name, email, profiles and maybe there will be more information in the future.
• The last tab is to close the application.

The application uses a google maps application to localize a person from the longitude and latitude coordinates. Create a map from google maps with the following parameters:

• Type of map –> Roadmap
• Zoom –> 10
• Center of map –> Latitude and longitude coordinates of the current user of
  the web

What technology was used?

To develop the geolocator has used Grails. Grails is a framework based on java and it is adapted to use some technologies such as jQuery, hibernate, spring and you can use maven to project deployment. Grails has the ability to deploy the project in the different environment easily.

Presentation at the Coordination Meeting:

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