Start of SVG map services platform for cellular phone in Japan

Hi W3C GeoXG members,

The commercial map services platform for the cellular phone that uses
SVG will be start in the beginning of next month in Japan.

The name of this platform is "EZ guide map". And provider is
telecommunication career KDDI in 2nd place of Japan.

SVG Map Viewer for this platform will be installed in 12 models among
new models that this company will put on the market next month.


The SVG map data for this platform needs CRS (Coordinate Reference
Systems) metadata of SVG.
(See http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#GeographicCoordinates)
As a result, centering the map by built-in GPS and layering some SVG
layers have been achieved. Therefore, they have good compatibility with
the data confoming to SVG Map profile that SVG Map consortium
recommends. (http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/04/svg_map_profile_4df1.html)


And, ten map services that use this platform starts at the same time.
Three major base map provider companies of Japan are offering the base
maps to these services.

That is, the greater part of base map providers released SVG maps (with
CRS metadata) in Japan.

More detailed information will be presented at SVG Open 2007 in Japan.
(http://www.svgopen.org/)

The following information are all Japanese. When google transletor etc.
are used, some information might be obtained.
(http://www.google.com/translate_t)

News releases of KDDI
http://www.kddi.com/corporate/news_release/2007/0522a/index.html
http://www.kddi.com/corporate/news_release/2007/0522a/besshi.html
http://www.kddi.com/corporate/news_release/2007/0522f/index.html
http://www.kddi.com/corporate/news_release/2007/0522f/besshi.html

Articles by mass media of Japan (Many screen shots are included. )
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/34620.html
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/34608.html
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2007/05/23/au2/index.html
http://japan.internet.com/allnet/20070522/4.html

Regards,

Satoru Takagi.

Received on Thursday, 24 May 2007 09:42:48 UTC