A Semantic Enhanced Adaptive Sharable Personalised Spatial Map for Mobile Users

Map applications based upon geospatial information systems (GIS) are seen as key applications for mobile users, e.g., to enable various assets to be located and tracked, with respect to destinations and routes. However, current GIS map applications for mobile users tend to lack support for personalisation, to enable users to set preferences to select content, and to mark up a map, in-situ, e.g., to remember short-cuts, good parking spaces, etc, which have been discovered out in the physical world. These services also tend to lack a provision to enable such tagged personal spaces to be used within shared social spaces because of a lack of semantic interoperability. An interactive map service that uses semantic modeling, that adapts to personal preferences and that supports persistent and sharable mark-up, has been developed and tested in a demonstrator.