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Figure 2: A prototype system of WAP-based Mobile GIS
6. CONCLUSION AND PROSPECT
WAP-based Mobile GIS is a very new study field of
Geoinformatics. Above all, the architecture is solved, because it
is the key and core of the distributed system. In this paper,
based on J2EE, an open distributed architecture is proposed for
WAP-based Mobile GIS. And a prototype system is designed
and developed based on the architecture which is composed of
four logic tiers. The prototype system can successfully work on
WAP phones, which proves that the architecture is feasible.
At present, low bandwidths are still the main bottleneck of all
mobile applications (Wei Zhongya, Xu Sunxin and Wu Lun,
2003). So researches on the organization of geospatial data at
the fat server side and on the presentation of geospatial
information at the thin client side should be done farther.
Fortunately, the mobile network is towards the development of
3G. In 3G age, when the mobile terminal moves at the same
speed as vehicle, the transmission speed is 144kbps, when the
mobile terminal moves at the walking speed or un-moves in
outdoor, the transmission speed is 384kbps, when the mobile
terminal is in the room, the transmission speed is up to 2 Mbps.
The 3G bandwidths will satisfy with the requirements of
geospatial information wireless transmission. Therefore, it is
not hard to understand that WAP-based Mobile GIS will have
better development and application perspectives and
considerable business value.
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