THE
SPANISH CARTOGRAPHY ON MOBILES HAND-PLATFORM: THE MOVILMAP PROJECT
Fernando Aranaz del Río1,
Pedro Vivas2
1Centro Nacional
de Información Geográfica
(CNIG) of
fernando.aranaz@fomento.es
2Centro Nacional
de Información Geográfica
(CNIG) of
pedro.vivas@cnig.es
The Spanish National Information Geographic
Centre (CNIG) has finish with success a project to push in mobile hand-platform
the basic national cartographic digital data of the Spanish NMA: the National
Geographic Institute (IGN), a details of scale 1/25.000. The project, know how
MOVILMAP en
The system is extremely utile how positioning
system of receptor device with errors means near 20 meters in urban sites and
100 metes in country sites. These values are high already that the positioning
is calculated means of trilateration system between antennas position. The
project is realized with the “TELEFÓNICA MÓVILES España”
company and plus exactly with your “Movistar: e.motion” service that nowadays
is in service to all clients of this international company of phone services.
Of course this joint venture the mapping digital data is accessible to any
client in anywhere of world.
The MOVILMAP commercial service is means
subscription it shelf with a monthly cost without limit of time of use in
mapping navigation, searching and localization, or about the use a phone call
to system service “e.motion” in the internet page http://www.movilmap.es, in this las
case the cost is the standard cost about the time of use in phone call price
list.
The MOVILMAP project use the
raster image format more appropriate to transfer from the digital mapping data
server in CNIG to end-user client: movies phones and PDAs.
The navigation flow of client and the Graphic User Interface (GUI) are
extremely easy, natural and friendly, and give the user the search and found
capacity of selection any urban place-name (city, village, ...) of Spain
working with the geo-referenced Gazetteer of data map means of step to step way
in deep to different scales of maps : national, regional and province map in
zoom operations already reach the maximum level of details with the MTN25 maps
of Spain.
The project is made using open
source environment and UNIX operative system how server on CNIG centre of
data process. The system is a multi-platform client. In this way the system
detect the configuration of the end-user device (phone or PDA): size and
resolution of screen, version of firmware, capacity of memory or processor,
etc., and adapt the size and resolution of digital mapping data to transmit to
window-screen size and resolution to client.
The potential users of this
MOVILMAP service are multiples. We thinks that the individual and personal user
are lot-off, but the public and governmental organizations and corporations are
natural end-users of the system. In the private march the system have a wider
list of applications with the inclusion the any data of interest to public from
the server. The system is well to utilities: fireman, police, civil protection
authorities, events, car accidents, natural disasters, they are a hug quantity
of events who are to be map positioned and localized. With this process the
positioning is clear and the advertisement is more efficient and effective
already of all people have a mobile in your hand or in the pocket of course.
The applications are multiples and the imagination of each one of ours will
give at system functionalities no think at the moment.
The way of service is fully open. This permit
to push any type of element on the digital map take on for the client y can to
be public and can to be and power tool in the march of the tourism, utilities,
point of information, and any points of interest, … The MOVILMAP project is
open in your configuration and can to adapt to any type or kind of data in your
end-user server segment.