What Is Mobile GIS?

Mobile GIS (Mobile GIS) is a GIS system based on the mobile Internet, using smartphones or tablets as terminals, and combining Beidou, GPS, or base stations as positioning means. Mobile positioning, mobile office, etc. have become more and more urgent needs of enterprises or individuals. Mobile GIS is the core part of them, making a variety of location-based applications emerge endlessly.

Mobile GIS

Mobile GIS (Mobile GIS) is based on the mobile Internet, using smartphones or tablets as terminals, and combining Beidou, GPS, or base stations as positioning methods.

Mobile GIS is based on mobile Internet, using smartphones or tablets as terminals, and combining Beidou, GPS, or base stations as positioning means.

Mobile GIS is not new, its predecessor was "

Mobile GIS is

The mobile software system includes satellite navigation and positioning functions, mobile data collection functions, mobile GIS office and data transmission functions. ^[3]

Mobility

Mobile GIS gets rid of the limitations and restrictions of the wired network, and interacts with the server through the wireless network for information interaction. Is an extension of desktop system applications. ^[1]

Embedded technology

The wireless terminal of mobile GIS is an embedded system. Representative embedded wireless terminal devices include:

MapGIS Mobile GIS development platform MapGIS Mobile 9 manages multi-source geographic data information, integrates spatial location and intelligent services, and accurately delivers cloud GIS services and computing capabilities. ^[4]

Applications in Surveying and Mapping

In the field of surveying and mapping, mobile GIS is mainly used in fields such as field surveys and field data collection.

Field measurement applications are mainly applied to the hand thin of RTK equipment to achieve related measurement and stakeout calculations. Achieve measurement functions such as angle conversion, distance conversion, coordinate conversion, distance measurement, angle measurement, area measurement, fill-and-cut measurement, etc .; implement line stakeout, road stakeout and other stakeout functions.

Field data collection has been widely used in surveying and mapping related fields. Based on the remote sensing data in the industry, the relevant basic vector element data is sketched, and finally distributed according to the grid into data that can be identified by the mobile terminal. In the field, relevant operators perform spatial and attribute verification of the existing industry data Edit and modify the wrong data, and collect field data for the missing data.

Application of industry products

Now mobile GIS products have been widely used in power, land, forestry, agriculture, water conservancy, environmental protection, urban management, logistics, transportation and other fields. Typical applications applied in the industry are: map browsing, map positioning, data collection, attribute recording, data upload to server, track recording, route navigation, etc.

For example, the application of mobile GIS in electric power is mainly to conduct power line inspections. During the inspection process, it is found that the relevant wires or power towers are faulty, and the relevant locations, fault descriptions and photos are recorded and transmitted to the background server and the control center According to the failure, the relevant personnel are scheduled to perform maintenance. The maintenance personnel can navigate to the relevant location and perform the maintenance work according to the reported data. The results of the maintenance can also be directly fed back to the back-end server.

In the past two years, the software and hardware of mobile devices have developed greatly, such as network positioning technology, indoor positioning technology, network communication technology, inertial positioning technology, cameras, etc. With the development of these technologies, mobile GIS will have more and more applications in the industrial office field.

Application of popular products

Popular products are mainly used in life-related aspects. At present, the most widely used mobile GIS in the public domain is mobile phone electronic maps. Mobile phone electronic map products include map browsing, map positioning, peripheral address query, public transportation, driving navigation, walking navigation, dining, accommodation, entertainment, etc. Related functions. Mobile GIS has penetrated into every aspect of people's lives and has brought considerable convenience to people's travel.

With the development of the mobile Internet, popular life apps are increasingly integrated with mobile GIS. Mobile GIS will also have more and more in-depth applications in popular applications such as taxi, shopping, insurance, and tourism.