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Title Map-based mobile services : theories, methods and implementations / Liqiu Meng, Alexander Zipf, Tumasch Reichenbacher (editors)
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Map-based mobile services; Portrayal and Generalisation of Point Maps for Mobile Information Services; Activity and Context -- A Conceptual Framework for Mobile Geoservices; Effectiveness and efficiency of tourism maps in the World Wide Web and their potential for mobile map services; The Cognitive Reality of Schematic Maps; Adaptive Visualisation of Landmarks using an MRDB; Ego centres of mobile users and egocentric map design; Adaptation to Context -- A Way to Improve the Usability of Mobile Maps; Focalizing Measures of Salience for Wayfinding; Adaptive egocentric maps for mobile users
Summary Divided into three parts - theory, method and implementation, this book starts with a summary of the state-of-the-art in mobile technologies. It also introduces a conceptual framework of mobile cartography with the emphasis on mobile usage context. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains the PDF-Files in colour
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cartography -- Data processing.
Wireless communication systems.
Mobile communication systems.
Sciences de la terre.
Environnement.
Cartography -- Data processing
Mobile communication systems
Wireless communication systems
Form Electronic book
Author Meng, Liqiu
Zipf, Alexander
Reichenbacher, Tumasch
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