For the convenience of the student, the Guide focuses on the closest (by bus ride) and most popular businesses for reviews. Our heuristic for determining what businesses are both close and popular involves two steps. First, we find out which businesses are within ten kilometres of UWO's main campus. Second, we aggregate internet reviews for these businesses.
The former step takes advantage of Google Maps API1 to search for local businesses within a certain distance of the UWO campus2. The latter step can be broken down into several sub-problems. First, the businesses need to be manually sorted into the sections that the guide focuses on. Second, reviews will be scraped from popular review web-sites on the Internet. Finally, these reviews will be summarized and verified by visiting each business personally.
The computer programming side of the above problem will be delegated to the web-site developer, Peter Goodman. The sorting and summarizing of reviews will be distributed among the other part-time employees.