Map-based Mobile Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Map-based mobile services

   • Liqiu Meng, Tumasch Reichenbacher

   Pages 1-10

3. Portrayal and Generalisation of Point Maps for Mobile Information Services

   • Alistair Edwardes, Dirk Burghardt, Robert Weibel

   Pages 11-30

4. Activity and Context — A Conceptual Framework for Mobile Geoservices

   • Doris Dransch

   Pages 31-42

5. Effectiveness and efficiency of tourism maps in the World Wide Web and their potential for mobile map services

   • Frank Dickmann

   Pages 43-53

6. The Cognitive Reality of Schematic Maps

   • Alexander Klippel, Kai-Florian Richter, Thomas Barkowsky, Christian Freksa

   Pages 55-71

7. Adaptive Visualisation of Landmarks using an MRDB

   • Birgit Elias, Mark Hampe, Monika Sester

   Pages 73-86

8. Ego centres of mobile users and egocentric map design

   • Liqiu Meng

   Pages 87-105

9. Adaptation to Context — A Way to Improve the Usability of Mobile Maps

   • L. Tiina Sarjakoski, Annu-Maaria Nivala

   Pages 107-123

10. Focalizing Measures of Salience for Wayfinding

    • Stephan Winter, Martin Raubal, Clemens Nothegger

    Pages 125-139

11. Adaptive egocentric maps for mobile users

    • Tumasch Reichenbacher

    Pages 141-158

12. Cartographic Location Based Services

    • Georg Gartner, Susanne Uhlirz

    Pages 159-171

13. XML in Service Architectures for Mobile Cartographic Applications

    • Lassi Lehto, Tapani Sarjakoski

    Pages 173-192

14. A Survey of Map-based Mobile Guides

    • Jürg Baus, Keith Cheverst, Christian Kray

    Pages 193-209

15. Position Determination of Reference Points in Surveying

    • Leonhard Dietze, Klaus Böhm

    Pages 211-225

16. Dynamic 3D Maps for Mobile Tourism Applications

    • Arne Schilling, Volker Coors, Katri Laakso

    Pages 227-239

17. Designing electronic maps: an ethnographic approach

    • Barry Brown, Eric Laurier

    Pages 241-257

18. Back Matter

    Pages 259-260

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The development of wireless telecommunication and ubiquitous computing te- nologies has led to a growing mobile population and dramatically changed p- terns of working and everyday life. A smooth and safe mobility is only possible when the mobile person is well-informed of the happenings in his ambient en- ronments. Location-sensitive maps have proved a strong enhancement to what a mobile user can directly perceive from his ambient environments. Since ancient times the map has been the favorite communication language of spatial infor- tion. It is even more the case for mobile applications where brand-new maps can be wirelessly retrieved or generated in real-time. The upsurge of map-based s- vices on mobile devices has raised a number of new questions challenging the conventional computer-assisted cartography. Map-based mobile services provides a contemporary overview of research and development issues related to the design and the use of mobility-supporting maps. The book has been written for professional cartographers who are striving for - tending their theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge to mobile m- making, for surveyors and geo-service providers involved in the development of intelligent location-based services, for software developers and cognitive scientists engaged in human-computer interaction, and for students and academics in cart- raphy and geoinformation sciences. The book was initiated by the multidisciplinary workshop “Design of m- based mobile services” within the frame of the conference “Human and Computer 2003 – Interaction on the movement” held in Stuttgart, Germany, September 2003.

• 3D
• Geovisualisation
• Map Design
• Mobile Geoservices
• World Wide Web
• cartography
• geoinformation
• map
• user interface
• visualization

From the reviews:

"This book contains sixteen co-authored chapters … . The chapters provide a contemporary overview of the research agenda related to the design and use of maps associated with mobile devices and mobility-supporting initiatives. The book is written for a broad audience. … Overall this reviewer enjoyed reading the book, and recommends that it be placed on the reading list of any advanced cartography/geovisualization course exploring theoretical and applied research agendas." (Peter Keller, Geomatica, Vol. 59 (3), 2005)

• Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  L. Meng, T. Reichenbacher

• Department for Geoinformatics and Surveying FH Mainz, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany

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