Designing adaptable geographic objects for mobile applications

Author

Laurini, Robert ; Gordillo, Silvia ; Bazzocco, Javier ; Rossi, Gustavo ; Mostaccio, Catalina

Author_Institution

INSA, Lyon, France

fYear

2003

fDate

13 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

224

Abstract

In this position paper we discuss the evolution of an object-oriented framework for GIS applications into a platform for dealing with mobile users and geographic objects. We first motivate our research by discussing the state of the art of mobile GIS applications, the so-called location-based services using a simple scenario. We briefly describe an object-oriented architecture for dealing with discrete and continuous geographic data and show how good design practices allowed us to make geographic objects adaptive to mobile users. Some concluding remarks are finally presented.

Keywords

geographic information systems; mobile computing; object-oriented programming; GIS; continuous geographic data; discrete geographic data; geographic objects; location-based services; mobile applications; mobile users; object-oriented architecture; Application software; Computer architecture; Context; Geographic Information Systems; Memory management; Mobile computing; Object oriented modeling; Pervasive computing; Portable computers; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2103-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISEW.2003.1286805

Filename

1286805