A GML-Based Mobile Device Trace Monitoring System

Recently, the demands on information services have been increasing significantly. This is mainly due to the popularization of computer and mobile telecommunication devices and the rapid improvements on wireless communication technology. Specially, information services and their corresponding management for mobile devices, such as Location Based Service (LBS) and Telematics, become more and more important. However, the standard for geographical space data has not been finalized. Many commercial monitoring systems are using their own independent geographical information without making them compatible to others. Much efforts and resources have been wasted on managing and operating those different monitoring systems’ geographical Information System (GIS) databases. Accordingly, a standard format called GML, based on the most commonly used geographical data format such as DXF, DWG and SHP, has been emerged. In this paper, our work on GML’s visualization in Trace Monitoring Systems (TMS) is described fully. The details on how to trace and manage data moving among different mobile terminals are presented as well.