A Service-Oriented Platform to Map Cycling Routes

摘要

Over the last few years bicycles have been gaining more attention than motorized vehicles due to the benefits that they offer. Both private and public sectors are joining efforts to stimulate its usage, and an important step in this process is to bring cycling information closer to the population by making it easily available. Computer systems can be used to mitigate such gap by providing information like cycle routes, bicycle stop places and so forth. Considering current technologies it is mandatory that not only personal computers but also smartphones and other mobile devices should be able to access such information. However, to deal with this range of devices it is necessary to use technologies that support interoperability. In this context, a platform using service-oriented architecture and standard communication protocols can wrap a geographic database and a map server to transparently support the presentation of geographic and non-geographic information related to cycling. This paper presents the design and development of such a solution, which aims to increase the availability of cycling information and reduce the coupling between its storage and presentation. To assess this approach, a test scenario is built using real data and two applications are developed - one for Android smartphones and another one for web browsers.