Adaptive concepts for mobile cartography

This paper introduces an adaptive and dynamic generation of visualisations for mobile users on the basis of SVG. We present the concept adaptive visualisation, i.e. the personalisation of the presentation mode to the current user as well as the situation, the device. We will put emphasis on the adaptation of the presentation form and demonstrate how to use SVG for delivering adapted content to mobile users. We will briefly address the dynamic generation of SVG files from database content, depending on user, context, and constraints. SVG seems well suited for the goal of presenting dynamic and adapted geoinformation content to mobile users, since it offers a lot of useful features for this task.