DrishtiPath: Offline AI Navigation Through What You See

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass DrishtiPath: Offline AI Navigation Through What You See GPS is great — until you're in a crowded event, surrounded by temporary roads, changing entry points, thousands of people, and unreliable connectivity. That made me think about a different way to navigate: What if your phone could understand where you are simply by looking at what's around you? That idea became DrishtiPath. Instead of keeping users staring at a map, DrishtiPath is designed around a short interaction: Look → Capture → Identify → Get direction → Keep walking. What I Built DrishtiPath is an AI-assisted visual navigation system for large outdoor gatherings such as Kumbh Mela. A user can take a photo of a nearby landmark, gate, ghat, help booth, temple area, or other recognizable location. An open-weight AI model analyzes the image and attempts to identify the location. Once the landmark