A Technique for Importing Shapefile to Mobile Device in a Distributed System Environment

Mobile GIS emerged in the 1990s, with integration of GPS is one of the leading technique. It is a Location Based Services which can be defined as any application that extends spatial information processing or GIS capabilities to end users (based on their geographic location) (ESRI 2000 & 2001d). In other words it can be used to gather information from any place, and in no time. It’s where wireless and GIS technologies meet on the Web and it is changing the way businesses and individuals operate”(ESRI 2001a). The technology of mobile devices has been improving since 2000.The various improvements has resulted in developing a high promising technology by taking into account issues like  Portability • ‘Ruggedness’ and • All-day battery life. Presently we are designing a mobile application for importing shapefile to a mobile device which on other hand support geospatial vector data format of geographic information systems software. It was firstly developed and regulated by ESRI A "shapefile" commonly refers to a collection of files with ".shp", ".shx", ".dbf". To import a shapefile we need to use an open source software known as geoserver which helps to fetch the desired vector image. With the help of wireless technology like Bluetooth we can import shapefile to mobile even if the shapefile is located on different system. This will help in fetching information associated within the shapefile ,thus helping to obtained important information without considering its place of storage and location. In this work we have taken MNNIT Allahabad as area of research.