gvSIG An Open Source GIS solution for the Android Platform

• Author(s): Reinhold, Cristian Martin
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8156
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Mobile GIS; User Interface Design; Open source; gvSIG; GIS application
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Huerta Guijarro, Joaquín; Krüger, Antonio; Neto, Miguel de Castro Simões Ferreira
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies

This project aims to cope with the lack of GIS programs in mobile devices that enable both visualization and editing of almost any kind of geographic information. More specifically, it attempts to reach the new potential users emerged from the Android platform. With gvSIGDroid, which is based on gvSIGMobile, users will be able to retrieve, visualize, navigate and modify Geographic Information (GI), all this in a more suitable, user-friendly interface, especially designed for the Android platform. Based on this prototype, future extensions can be deployed to provide missing functionalities such as Location Based Services and data sharing.