Geographical Information System-supported location based services: Seamless content & functionality integration using web services

Author

Ahmad, Zanuldin ; Palaniappan, Sellappan ; Lee, Woon Wei ; Han, Yew Kok

Author_Institution

Malaysia Univ. of Sci.&Technol. (MUST), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The rapid growth in mobile Internet market worldwide has shown a promising future for the m-commerce services and applications such as location-based services (LBS). Geographical information system (GIS) always play an integral role in LBS systems. However, it also introduces high entry cost for LBS developers. This has resulted in slower growth of LBS. The recent emergence of Web services technology provides a possible solution to overcome the high GIS´s cost issue. This research proposed a GIS Web services architecture based on SOAP, XML and HTTP. A prototype is developed to expose GIS functionalities through standard Web interface. It is implemented using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Oracle Spatial 10g database, Oracle MapViewer, and other supporting tools. The proposed Web services approach is found to be practical and promises a lowering of the entry barrier to adopt GIS for LBS development.

Keywords

Web services; XML; access protocols; geographic information systems; mobile computing; network operating systems; relational databases; user interfaces; visual databases; visual programming; GIS; HTTP; LBS; Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003; Oracle MapViewer; Oracle Spatial 10g database; SOAP; Web interface; Web service architecture; XML; geographical information system; location based service; m-commerce service; mobile Internet; seamless content integration; seamless functionality integration; Costs; Geographic Information Systems; Information systems; Prototypes; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Standards development; Web and internet services; Web services; XML; Geographical information system; Location-based services; SOAP; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing & Informatics, 2006. ICOCI '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0219-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0220-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCI.2006.5276508

Filename

5276508