Adam Luptak
WorkCity Guides by National Geographic
May 2013
National Geographic partnered with Rally Interactive to adapt their acclaimed travel guides into a universal iPhone/iPad app.
Challenge:
To create the highly custom bubble map callouts with their optional crosslinks, we had to dig in and modify the code of the open-source MapBox SDK.
Challenge:
In our desire to make the app as useful as possible, we wanted to dynamically recommend optimal routes for user-created itineraries. To achieve this, we ended up implementing a Python-based Traveling Salesman Problem solution, which we exposed as an API that the app could hit.
Roles
Development Lead
Responsible for overall app architecture and data structures.
Development - Objective-C
Built basic app architecture, data models, maps, and various sections. Utilized UIKit as well as the open-source MapBox SDK.
Development - Django
Adapted a Traveling Salesman Problem solution to create a dynamic routing system for itineraries.