Information overload is a critical problem in mobile mapping
applications where users are impeded by several device limitations.
Locating the relevant content and generating a personalised version of
the map, tailored towards users' preferences would benefit downloading
time as well as readability on a small screen. While existing
applications propose solutions that rely on explicit user input, we
adopt an implicit profiling approach. In this paper we describe a
multimodal mobile GIS that implicitly records all user movements, as
well as interactions between users and maps, to dynamically recommend
information and to infer persistent spatial preferences. Modeling
preferences in this manner allows us to recommend personalised
context-aware spatial content to users whenever they request
maps. Providing a multimodal interface further improves a user's
geospatial experience as each user has the ability to freely switch
between different input modalities, including speech and gesture,
depending on which mode best suits their current task and environment.