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Introduction 

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1.5  Thesis structure 

The structure will try to follow a logical sequence to achieve the objective of the study. 

This  chapter  introduced  the  problems  and  challenges  of  visualizations  for  mobile 

devices and outlined the goals and  contributions  of this thesis. The remainder of the 

thesis is structured as follows: 

Chapter 2: 

Background of cartographic client on mobile devices 

This  chapter  reviews  the  existing  mobile  devices  and  Location  Based  Service.  It 

explains the definitions of WMS, image format, SVGT and J2ME, XML parser which 

play important role in the following research. At last some similar earlier application 

will be introduced. 

Chapter 3:

 Implementation of this application 

This chapter describes the workflow of how to implement the client. At first chooses 

the  testing  WMS  which  support  SVG  image  and  PNG  raster  image,  coordinate 

transformation is explained. After that, describes the code structure in both users

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s  views,  and  user  interface,  J2ME  Record  Management  Store  and  method 

to use kXML to parse the XML document, and method to use TinyLine SVGT SDK. 

Chapter 4: 

Conclusions and outlook 

This chapter discusses about the conclusions of client test on simulator and on Nokia 

S40/60 mobile phones. Further in conclusion the summary of whole work is given and 

scope for further research. 

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