A Framework for Handling Mobile Objects in Location Based Services

In this paper we present the Web based framework that provides efficient management, tracking and displaying of data about mobile objects in Web based Geographic Information Systems (Web GIS) and Location Based Services (LBS) applications built on top of it. The proposed framework heavily exploits contemporary Web data exchange and display technologies such as XML, GML and SVG integrating geospatial data and services standards developed by OGC, OpenLS and ISO TC 211. Such features make Web GIS and LBS applications developed around this framework fast, dynamic, interactive and easily adoptable to users needs. The component nature of the framework makes it flexible, scalable and extendible to satisfy specific application requirements. The framework integrates common geospatial data and processing services with specific services enabling mobile objects data management, querying, analysis and presentation over the wired and wireless Web. Furthermore, standard communication protocol based on XML makes the framework services interoperable with a wide array of currently available location technologies, and third party ecommerce services.