Map-based mobile services
Subtitle: theories, methods and implementations
By: Liqiu Meng, Alexander Zipf, Tumasch Reichenbacher (editors).
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Cartography -- Data processing.; Wireless communication systems.; Mobile communication systems.
Description: "This book is divided into three parts: theory, method and implementation. Starting with a summary of the state-of-the-art in mobile technologies, the first part analyses their impacts on cartography and pinpoints the missing theories concerned with the development of map-based mobile services. A conceptual framework of mobile cartography is then introduced with the emphasis on mobile usage context. The second part is devoted to the design methodology under the constraints defined in the theoretical framework. A core issue deals with personalised mobile map services. The final part demonstrates the feasibility of the methods by using application scenarios"--Publishers web site.
Notes: Mixed media, accompanying CD-ROM contains the PDF-Files in color.

Includes bibliographical references.

Requires: Acrobat Reader; Operatining system: Windows: 95, 98 SE, ME, XP.
Table of contents: title: 1. Map-based mobile services; title: 2. Portrayal and generalisation of point maps for mobile information; title: 3. Activity and context: a conceptual framework for mobile geoservices; title: 4. Effectiveness and efficiency of tourism maps in the World Wide Web and their potential for mobile map services; title: 5. The cognitive reality of cchematic maps; title: 6. Adaptive visualisation of landmarks using an MRDB; title: 7. Ego centres of mobile users and egocentric map design; title: 8. Adaptation to context: A way to improve the usability of mobile maps; title: 9. Focalizing measures of salience for wayfinding; title: 10. Adaptive egocentric maps for mobile users; title: 11. Cartographic location based services; title: 12. XML in service architectures for mobile cartographic applications; title: 13. A survey of map-based mobile guides; title: 14. Position determination of reference points in surveying; title: 15. Dynamic 3D maps for mobile tourism applications; title: 16. Designing electronic maps: an ethnographic approach.