A multi-modal communication approach to describing the surroundings to mobile users

  • Authors:
  • Janne Kovanen;Tapani Sarjakoski;L. Tiina Sarjakoski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Masala, Finland;Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Masala, Finland;Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Masala, Finland

  • Venue:
  • W2GIS'13 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Mobile users frequently pass non-obvious features that could be represented to the user in a multi-modal manner. This type of information can be used to affect the decision making of the user or to complement his or her navigation experience. However, data providers do not have a common data interchange schema for describing geographical features multi-modally. This paper presents a multi-modal approach by extending the GeoJSON, GML, and KML formats to describe the surroundings of a mobile user in a Location-Based Service. In addition, the paper discusses how the approach can be implemented on a mobile client. Finally, the paper demonstrates how the proposal has been implemented with a functional prototype for a hiking use case.