Comparison of Mobile GIS applications
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The document compares several mobile GIS applications including both proprietary and open source options. It discusses platforms, features, and performance based on tests of common tasks. While open source applications have potential and are comparable to ArcPad in many ways, they still need more documentation, customization options, and support for professional sensors to be as full featured. New devices, interactions, and technologies also provide opportunities for mobile GIS applications.
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Comparison of Mobile GIS applications
- 1. A comparison of GIS Mobile Applications Miguel Montesinos & Javier Carrasco m m o n t e s i n o s / j c a r r a s c o @ p r o d e v e l o p . e s
- 2. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 3. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 4. Introduction In the beginning it was ArcPad + MS PocketPC + Old PDAs
- 5. Introduction The evolution followed these trends: Competitors far far away from ESRI
- 6. MS leading the path
- 7. PDAs evolving to smartphones
- 9. Introduction Some OS initiatives started: MOSS4G – FOSS4G BOF 2006
- 10. gvSIG Mobile
- 11. Enebro
- 12. Introduction Mobile phones swallowed PDAs MOSS4G – FOSS4G BOF 2006
- 13. gvSIG Mobile
- 14. Enebro
- 15. Introduction PDAs are not personal any more ¿EDAs? Windows Mobile based GIS
- 16. Newcomers
- 17. Introduction Article with details available at OSGeo wiki http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_Mobile_Comparison
- 18. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 19. Mobile GIS Products Real GIS gvSIG Mobile
- 20. Enebro
- 21. ESRI ArcPad Mobile Viewers TangoGPS / Foxtrot GPS
- 22. gvSIG Mini
- 23. Layar
- 24. Products. gvSIG Mobile Member of gvSIG family Funded by Reg. Gov Valencia, Spain GPL Community Alive & kicking
- 25. Products. Enebro Funded by Reg. Gov Andalucía, Spain Open Source No Community / Open Development
- 26. Products. ArcPad ESRI product Privative Software Active Development
- 27. Products. Tango GPS GPS-flavoured product Open Source Linux platforms Forked by Foxtrot GPS
- 28. Products. Foxtrot GPS GPS-flavoured product Open Source Linux platforms Active OSGeo list: foss-gps
- 29. Products. gvSIG Mini GPS-flavoured product Open Source Android / Java ME CLDC
- 30. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 32. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 34. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 38. GPS
- 39. Editing
- 40. Other features
- 41. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 42. Perfomance Tests Only for Windows Mobile Products gvSIG Mobile 0.3
- 43. Enebro 2.0
- 44. ArcPad 10 Only for common data formats
- 45. Perfomance Tests. Datasets Vectorial Datasets FOSS4G 2010 Dataset (ShapeFile) Raster Datasets ECW from CNIG (Spanish Nat. Mapping Agency)
- 46. Perfomance Tests. Methodology Manual measurement. Stopwatch. Averaging Minimal threshold = 0,2 s. Operations tested: Add a layer. Zoom to a small area. Pan. Fit all (Zoom to Extent)
- 47. Perfomance Tests. Methodology Used device. PDA: - Acer S200 - Processor: Qualcomm 1 Ghz - Memory: 256 KB SDRAM. - ROM: 512 KB. - Screen: 480 x 800 px. - O.S.: Windows Mobile 6.5
- 48. Perfomance Tests. Results Vectorial Datasets. Small/Medium
- 49. Perfomance Tests. Results Vectorial Datasets. Large
- 50. Perfomance Tests. Results Raster Datasets For small zooms, no response in Enebro within 5 mins.
- 51. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Products 3. Platforms 4. Open source analysis 5. Feature comparison 6. Perfomance tests 7. Conclussions
- 52. Enebro Very good software, quite fast and free
- 53. Not open development, no public repositories
- 56. Very few spread
- 57. Very light applications Application like gvSIG Mini or TangoGPS that support only tiles (OSM, yahoo maps...) or WMS are fast and light and powerful
- 58. This kind of applications are growing in number
- 59. With a few more work is possible to add custom forms and POI creation to do asset inventory and maintenance and incidence reporting
- 60. New devices and platforms Android and iOS devices are “cheap” and powerful, include cameras, aGPS, WiFi and CellId based location, compass, accelerometers, light sensors and so on.
- 61. The new boom of tablets provides bigger screens with small weights and good battery consumption
- 62. Multitouch screens require new interfaces
- 63. The number of users is astonishing
- 64. Layar and Augmented Reality Augmented reality provides users the possibility to see located objects over the real world
- 65. The spread of Layar is *15 the spread of ArcPad
- 66. ¿Could it be interesting for the GIS community to use mobile AR professionally?
- 67. Web based touch applications There are some initiatives to make the web mapping possible on mobile TouchMapLite
- 68. Openlayers
- 69. more? With HTML5 personal database is possible to have offline data
- 70. We will keep an eye on those projects
- 71. Desktop applications optimized for mobility Beegis is an application developed to be used by geologists on outdoor surveys
- 72. Is built on top of Jgrass, so it has a lot of functionality
- 73. It works on tablet-PCs
- 74. Its key functionalities are Geonotes tool
- 75. GPS tool
- 76. The number of applications We searched very hard for FLOSS mobile Geo applications with very few results
- 77. Did we missed any important software?
- 78. What are the reasons for such a few results?
- 79. Are the OS applications comparable to ArcPad? (I) In both FLOSS apps and ArcPad Is possible to: field mapping
- 80. inventory and mantainment of assets
- 82. inspections ArcPad does not support any open or OGC format
- 83. Performance is perfectly comparable and in some cases gvSIG Mobile is even faster
- 84. Are the OS applications comparable to ArcPad? (II) ArcPad has great documentation, a good customization framework and good integration with ArcGIS
- 85. gvSIG Mobile (the most complete OS App) does not support rangefinder or dgps or camera and geometry editing is poor compared to ArcPad at this moment
- 86. To do FLOSS Mobile GIS still have to work on Making better documentation and tutorials
- 87. Making the software easier to install and use
- 88. Expand the user and developer community
- 89. Support professional equipment like rangefinder and dgps Keep an eye on new interactions (multitouch), new hardware (+1GB RAM, Sensors), new approaches (AR) and new possibilities (HTML5, WiFi and CellID location)
- 90. A comparison of GIS Mobile Applications Miguel Montesinos & Javier Carrasco m m o n t e s i n o s / j c a r r a s c o @ p r o d e v e l o p . e s