The Evolution of Mobile Mapping
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The document outlines the evolution of mobile mapping, starting from the author's personal journey in geospatial technology in the 1990s to the current state of mobile mapping applications. It highlights key advancements in technologies such as GPS, web mapping, and mobile data speeds, as well as lessons learned regarding design and data management for mapping applications. The document also discusses the future of cartography and the proliferation of GIS across various platforms.
The Evolution of Mobile Mapping
- 1. The Evolution of Mobile Mapping © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 2. IBM My timeline • 1991: left college, shunned Finance, stumbled into a GIS job • 1994: came to MIT, discovered the web soon after • 1997: started a company doing web-mapping-as-a-service • 2004: finished PhD on geospatial web services • 2005-2014: worked in geospatial web standards • 2014-: Cloudant/IBM Geo with NoSQL/JSON © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 3. IBM Evolution of Web Mapping © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015 TDMA, GSM 1997: GPRS (1st data network) 2000s: CDMA 2000, EDGE, 3G 2010+: 4G, LTE Mobile data speeds 70s-90s pen plotters 1989 GPS WWWeb 2010+ Client-Side Everything JSON, Data, GIS 1993 Xerox PARC Map Viewer 2005 Google Maps, AJAX 2000 End of Selective GPS Late 1990s “GIS” Web Maps 1996 MapQuest Late 1990s “Map Servers”
- 4. IBM What have we learned? • Speed matters • Pre-compute data that doesn’t change into image TILES • Use a specialized server, not a GIS bolt-on • Design & UIX matter • AJAX • Responsive design • Web standards • Location is a supporting actor • the app is more important than the map © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 5. IBM Where are we today? • Components of a great mobile mapping app © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015 Basemap tiles •Google, Bing •OpenStreetMap •Mapbox Web Clients •Leaflet, OpenLayers •Google, Esri, Bing Custom data •Cloudant, Esri •PouchDB Query APIs •OGC standards •Cloudant, Google, etc. HTML5 / Javascript
- 6. IBM Where are we today? • Components of a great mobile mapping app © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015 Basemap tiles: Mapbox API Query: all restaurants X meters from Y that serve Z Web client: LeafletJS Custom data: restaurants
- 7. IBM Code! © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 8. IBM Where are we headed? © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 9. IBM Cartography with CSS and SVG © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 10. IBM Clients everywhere © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 11. IBM Turf: GIS everywhere © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 12. IBM Thanks Questions? Raj Singh IBM Cloudant Developer Advocate rrsingh@us.ibm.com twitter: @rajrsingh http://www.linkedin.com/in/rajrsingh © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
- 13. IBM References • Cloudant: http://www.cloudant.com • GeoJSON: http://geojson.org • Leaflet: http://leafletjs.com • OpenLayers: http://openlayers.org • Mapbox: http://mapbox.com • Mapserver: http://mapserver.org • Geoserver: http://geoserver.org • Esri: http://www.esri.com • Turf: http://turfjs.org • A Brief History of Web Mapping: http://www.slideshare.net/stevenfeldman/history-of-web-mapping © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015
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