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1. A method for finding one or more items within a facility, wherein the method includes steps comprising:
reading a machine readable tag within the facility to form data, wherein the facility includes a plurality of machine readable tags, each providing different data, wherein the facility includes a parking area, and wherein each of the machine readable tags in the plurality of machine readable tags is located adjacent one or more parking spaces; receiving the data within a computing system in a portable electronic device; generating a server address on a network from the data; connecting the portable electronic device to a server over the network at the server address; receiving a user selection describing an item to be visited within the facility, wherein the user selection is made by selecting a machine readable tag to be read within the plurality of machine readable tags, causing the machine readable tag to become the item to be visited, and wherein the location of the item to be visited is determined from the data provided by the machine readable tag; determining a location of the item from a data structure accessed by the server; determining a location of the portable electronic device within the facility; and displaying an image of a map of the facility on the portable electronic device, wherein the map includes a cursor representing the location of the portable electronic device within the facility and an icon representing the location of the item, and whereinthe method includes an initialization process, performed when a vehicle is left within the parking area and a vehicle location process, performed to find the vehicle within the parking area, wherein data describing the location of the item to be visited is stored within the portable electronic device during the initialization process, and wherein the vehicle location process is started by a user selection made using the portable electronic device. |
