Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering (Mastering GIS: Technol, Applications & Mgmnt) |  | Authors: Allan Brimicombe, Chao Li
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 0470857374
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.285
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Publication Date: August 24, 2009
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Location-Based Services (LBS) are the delivery of data and information services where the content of those services is tailored to the current location and context of a mobile user. This is a new and fast-growing technology sector incorporating GIS, wireless technologies, positioning systems and mobile human-computer interaction. Geo-Information (GI) Engineering is the design of dependably engineered solutions to society’s use of geographical information and underpins applications such as LBS. These are brought together in this comprehensive text that takes the reader through from source data to product delivery. This book will appeal to professionals and researchers in the areas of GIS, mobile telecommunications services and LBS. It provides a comprehensive view and in-depth knowledge for academia and industry alike. It serves as essential reading and an excellent resource for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in GIScience, Geography, Mobile Computing or Information Systems who wish to develop their understanding of LBS.
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overview of LBS March 11, 2010
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
Brimicombe and Li offer a quick description of the possibilities of Location Based Services, at a level that deprecates the engineering and computing aspects. Hence the book can be read by a non-technical person, as well as by an engineer.
The prospects for LBS are promising and some applications may have global scope. We see that many existing LBS-type applications, and no doubt future ones, will likely be for users having cellphones. A necessary condition for LBS is where the user is mobile, and where the user's location and perhaps velocity are vital inputs to ascertaining the user's need for the LBS. When this is combined with the many users who own cellphones, and the ability of many phones to return some location information about themselves, then by default LBS is pragmatically equivalent to using this data.
However, at least for me, I found no compelling new LBS to leap out of the pages. If you want to read this book for such hints, perhaps you will have better luck.
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