"Design and Implementation of a Mobile GIS Application
for Pedestrian Using SVG Tiny and J2ME"
(Case Study of Stuttgart City Centre)
- 2007 -
Abstract
Geographic Information System (GIS) applications on mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular. Many of these devices suffer in three main areas: processor speed, memory space and screen size. This research presents a mobile GIS application using Mobile SVG Tiny (a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics) technology. Typical client-server technology is assumed with a wireless connection to the server. Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) application is being implemented on client side and a PHP (Personal Home Page to Hypertext Preprocessor) application using MySQL as an open source Relational Database Management System that relies on Structured Query Language for processing the data in the database along with path finding using A* algorithm is being implemented on server side. The implementation is demonstrated by a pedestrian oriented map application of Stuttgart City Centre for mobile device. The application is designed to perform satisfacto-rily on hand-held devices (mobile phones or PDA) for the Mobile GIS application. The research describes the application's data format-Mobile SVG and points out the areas for future development.
Keywords: Mobile GIS, Server-Client side application, SVG Tiny.home