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I-MOVE: towards the use of a mobile 3D GeoBrowser framework for urban mobility decision making
Abstract The field of Geographical Information Systems has assisted to a substantial growth within the last years, both in terms of quantity and quality of available data and at the same time, a number of standards for geospatial and location based services has been developed and adopted to improve the access to this information. As data becomes publicly available, the development of effective visualization applications, from simple virtual sight-seeing also known as geo-browsers to more complex solutions combining data with smart services, has opened the door for new opportunities to improve the general quality of life. Applications such as personal navigators, virtual globes, social networking and mobile review portals are only a small example set. This field, until recently restricted to high-end workstations and personal computers, is rapidly expanding to mobile devices to ensure seamless access to geospatial information to be used on the go. For this reason, one of the new challenges has become the visualisation of such information within these smartphones and their combination with their advanced hardware and connectivity equipment in order to create innovative smart services to improve the quality of life. This work illustrates the research work which has led to a lightweight three dimensional framework for geospatial visualization, running on Android enabled devices and how this technology has been used for intelligent urban mobility in the context of a European project as an example of its potential. The system makes use of hardware acceleration, complies with several standards typical of the geospatial domain, is customizable through a layer-based architecture and is used as a basis for daily intelligent multimodal routing. After a brief overview of the protocols and technologies adopted, the paper presents the system, the results of an extended test phase, some practical example of how the framework can be customized for a real urban mobility scenario, the problems tackled and the limitations to be faced.
I-MOVE: towards the use of a mobile 3D GeoBrowser framework for urban mobility decision making
Abstract The field of Geographical Information Systems has assisted to a substantial growth within the last years, both in terms of quantity and quality of available data and at the same time, a number of standards for geospatial and location based services has been developed and adopted to improve the access to this information. As data becomes publicly available, the development of effective visualization applications, from simple virtual sight-seeing also known as geo-browsers to more complex solutions combining data with smart services, has opened the door for new opportunities to improve the general quality of life. Applications such as personal navigators, virtual globes, social networking and mobile review portals are only a small example set. This field, until recently restricted to high-end workstations and personal computers, is rapidly expanding to mobile devices to ensure seamless access to geospatial information to be used on the go. For this reason, one of the new challenges has become the visualisation of such information within these smartphones and their combination with their advanced hardware and connectivity equipment in order to create innovative smart services to improve the quality of life. This work illustrates the research work which has led to a lightweight three dimensional framework for geospatial visualization, running on Android enabled devices and how this technology has been used for intelligent urban mobility in the context of a European project as an example of its potential. The system makes use of hardware acceleration, complies with several standards typical of the geospatial domain, is customizable through a layer-based architecture and is used as a basis for daily intelligent multimodal routing. After a brief overview of the protocols and technologies adopted, the paper presents the system, the results of an extended test phase, some practical example of how the framework can be customized for a real urban mobility scenario, the problems tackled and the limitations to be faced.
I-MOVE: towards the use of a mobile 3D GeoBrowser framework for urban mobility decision making
Magliocchetti, Daniele (author) / Conti, Giuseppe (author) / De Amicis, Raffaele (author)
2012-03-28
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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