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  title: Alex Pszczolkowski | Project | Wayfinder
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<a href="http://zlotetarasy.pl/en/centremap">
    <img src="img/wayfinder.png" class="img-responsive"/>
</a>

<h1 class="text-center">
    Wayfinder - Frontend &amp; Backend
</h1>

<p>
    <strong>Wayfinder</strong> - shortest route finding
    system for shopping malls, hospitals, public
    facilities and alike.
</p>

<p>
    I was brought on board this project, by a fantastic team of specialists from
    <a href="http://silksoftwarehouse.com/">Silk Software House</a> in order to
    help them build a white label, shortest route finding software.
    First, I've created a frontend prototype, as a proof of concept of the solution
    to test out the initial ideas we had.
    We then took the lessons learned from that and reiterated,
    building a fully functioning system. The software supports
    route finding and dynamic presentation between multiple floors
    and comes with a management interface that allows the users to edit
    the paths, maps, floors and venues.
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<p>
    The end product was deployed in the largest shopping mall,
    downtown Warsaw -
    <a href="http://zlotetarasy.pl/en/centremap">Złote Tarasy</a> -
    as a web-based solution on the shopping malls website and on premises,
    inside the touchscreen hardware.
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<p>
    <h2>Technologies used:</h2>
    <ul class="tech-used">
        <li>Groovy and Grails</li>
        <li>Java</li>
        <li>Neo4j Graph Database</li>
        <li>Postgresql</li>
        <li>Backbone.js</li>
        <li>Paper.js</li>
        <li>Splines.js</li>
    </ul>
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