CampusMapper is an interactive mapping tool for the University of Twente campus. It's
part of the Wireless Campus LBS project in which state-of-the art Location-Based
Services are developed that use the university's WiFi network as its foundation.

The Wireless Campus LBS
Wireless Campus LBS is an informal co-operation  project at the University of Twente
(UT) in cooperation with the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and
Earth Observa-tion (ITC) to provide Location Based Services (LBS) for the UT campus.
This LBS run on the existing Wireless Campus system that provides the whole 140ha
University grounds with WiFi based internet access. The project serves as a testbed
for research activities as well as an infrastructure to develop practical use cases
upon. A first use case has been to provide the participants of SVGopen2005, the 4th
Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics  with an LBS to help them navigate the
conference locations and locate fellow attendants [1].  

CampusMapper Customised Mapping Service
For the wireless Campus LBS a spatial database is being build (using MySQL) which
eventually will hold all topographic and building data of the campus. The University
services (such as Public Relations and Facility Management) are especially interested
in it, as it can provide the basis for quickly and easily customised maps of the
campus or parts thereof. ITC has experience in and knowledge of building such mapping
services and was willing to help this project forward by building a protype of such
an interactive, web-based application. This involved extending and structuring the
spatial database and building Open Standards based Webservices. The architecture and
setup of the services was  based upon the GDI-light concept, as experimented earlier
with in the RIMapper system [2], employing MySQL, Java Servlets and SVG. This paper
presents the technical background and setup of this application and plans for future
development, among others to achieve OGC WMS compatibility.

[1] Köbben, B., K. Muthukrisnan, et al. (2005): Wireless Campus LBS - A testbed for
cartographically aware database objects. Proceedings of Symposium 2005 Location Based
Services & TeleCartography, G. Gartner (ed.). Wien: Research group Cartography,
Institute of Geoinformation and  Cartography, TU Wien. pp. 47-51.
[2] Köbben, B. (2004): RIMapper - a test bed for online Risk Indicator Maps using
data-driven SVG visualisation. Proceedings of 2nd Sypmposium on Location Based
Services and TeleCartography, G. Gartner (ed.). Wien: Institute of Cartography and
Geo-Media Techniques. pp. 189-195.

CampusMapper is an interactive mapping tool for the University of Twente campus. It's
part of the Wireless Campus LBS project in which state-of-the art Location-Based
Services are developed that use the university's WiFi network as its foundation.

The Wireless Campus LBS
Wireless Campus LBS is an informal co-operation  project at the University of Twente
(UT) in cooperation with the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and
Earth Observa-tion (ITC) to provide Location Based Services (LBS) for the UT campus.
This LBS run on the existing Wireless Campus system that provides the whole 140ha
University grounds with WiFi based internet access. The project serves as a testbed
for research activities as well as an infrastructure to develop practical use cases
upon. A first use case has been to provide the participants of SVGopen2005, the 4th
Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics  with an LBS to help them navigate the
conference locations and locate fellow attendants [1].  

CampusMapper Customised Mapping Service
For the wireless Campus LBS a spatial database is being build (using MySQL) which
eventually will hold all topographic and building data of the campus. The University
services (such as Public Relations and Facility Management) are especially interested
in it, as it can provide the basis for quickly and easily customised maps of the
campus or parts thereof. ITC has experience in and knowledge of building such mapping
services and was willing to help this project forward by building a protype of such
an interactive, web-based application. This involved extending and structuring the
spatial database and building Open Standards based Webservices. The architecture and
setup of the services was  based upon the GDI-light concept, as experimented earlier
with in the RIMapper system [2], employing MySQL, Java Servlets and SVG. This paper
presents the technical background and setup of this application and plans for future
development, among others to achieve OGC WMS compatibility.

[1] Köbben, B., K. Muthukrisnan, et al. (2005): Wireless Campus LBS - A testbed for
cartographically aware database objects. Proceedings of Symposium 2005 Location Based
Services & TeleCartography, G. Gartner (ed.). Wien: Research group Cartography,
Institute of Geoinformation and  Cartography, TU Wien. pp. 47-51.
[2] Köbben, B. (2004): RIMapper - a test bed for online Risk Indicator Maps using
data-driven SVG visualisation. Proceedings of 2nd Sypmposium on Location Based
Services and TeleCartography, G. Gartner (ed.). Wien: Institute of Cartography and
Geo-Media Techniques. pp. 189-195.