gvSIGDroid - An Open Source GIS Solution for the Android Platform

Mobile GIS applications are gaining attention due to a wide range of potential target applications such as ecommerce, tourism, education, agriculture, and field research. This requires easy-to-use geospatial applications operating on mobile devices to enable both visualization and editing of widely-used geospatial data and formats. This paper introduces gvSIGDroid, an open source geospatial mobile application that attempts to reach the new potential users emerged from the Android platform. The prototype’s core functionalities rely on gvSIGMobile modules together with an especially designed user interface for the Android platform, allowing mobile users to retrieve, visualize, navigate and modify both local and remote geospatial layers. Future extensions can be deployed so as to provide missing functionalities such as Location Based Services and data sharing.