An Investigation on GIS Technology for Android Embedded System

With the continuous development of mobile communication technology, wireless internet technology and mobile terminal technology, geographic space information have already widely applied to various fields in our daily life. The traditional Geographic Information System (GIS) is developing to the mobile terminal, the popularity of Android embedded system provide a excellent platform for the development of GIS. This paper gives an investigation of recent developments in GIS and introduces the key technology used in reality. And it also presents the ongoing researches and applications on GIS used in Android embedded system, like using GIS as Location Based Service (LBS), using GIS in SuperMap, GPS navigation and Mobile video.