Architecture for Including Personalization in a Mobile GIS via Semantic Web Techniques - Geographical Information Systems: Trends and Technologies - page 205

CHAPTER 8
Architecture for Including
Personalization in a Mobile
GIS via Semantic Web
Techniques
Laia Descamps-Vila, Jordi Conesa, Antoni Pérez-Navarro*
and Joan Casas
Introduction
Smartphones are nowadays a common device with millions of users
around the world. They can execute thousands of applications that
support any interest of users: productivity, mail access, internet navigation,
entertainment, tourism, etc. These applications transform the experience
of using a smartphone to something similar to use a pocket extension of a
personal computer. They are not simply PC software ported to smartphones,
but applications that have been created from scratch to be adapted to these
devices in order to take full advantage of the possibilities of smartphones.
Among these applications we find geographical applications, like Google
Maps (Google 2012) or OSMAnd (2012), that allow users to have access to
a map anywhere and at anytime and to be positioned and located thanks to
the GPS capacities. Some applications even take advantage of the compass
and accelerometer and are able to find out what the user is looking at or
IT, Multimedia and Telecommunications Department, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Rambla
Poblenou, 156, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.