Where? This is such a basic and fundamental questions that many or almost any science is related to this question. And of course it is the base to the science of geography.
Space is what GIS is all about, and business knows the critical importance of the three Ls: location, location, location. (Michael F. Goodchild, UCSB)
I think with this sentence Goodchild wants to emphasis on the importance of location.
Location based Services are about Location!
We are in the midst of an information revolution, in which an endless array of data can be combined and manipulated in ways that tells us amazing things about our surroundings relevant to time, where we are, and what we want most. Traffic, points of interests, satellite imagery, and a variety of user-generated content are being used to create compelling new location-based solutions.
In a recent consumer survey, market research firm C.J. Driscoll & Associates found that one third of U.S. cellular subscribers were strongly interested in location-based mobile applications, including friend and business finder services. On the enterprise side, researcher In-Stat predicts a doubling of workforce LBS end users to more than a million by 2010.
Some interesting questions…
- Is there also LBS 1.0 and LBS 2.0 as we know this term in the web?
- When is the prediced hype for LBSs comming or will it come?
- What makes the map more than just another widget and how it can facilitate innovation in services?
- (How) will the convergence of mobile technology and the demand for location-awareness affect consumers and the service and device choices they make?
[where 2.0, UCSB]
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
