Tag Archives: location based services

Android in a pre 1.0 version available

Google recently released a pre 1.0 beta version of the Android SDK. “This is the first release of the Android SDK that is formally on the path to Android 1.0.” This let assume at first handset devices are comming soon. … Continue reading

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LBS 2008 – 5th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography

The Mobile and Web-based Information Systems Group of Salzburg Research and the Cartography & Engineering Geodesy Research Groups of the Vienna University of Technology are pleased to present the 5th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography in cooperation with the … Continue reading

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2008 is the year of LBS (like it was in 2007, 2006, 2005 …)

There’s lots of talk that 2008 will be the year of location based services (see here, here or here). But will this ever become true? If we look back to the past years LBS was always a topic and a … Continue reading

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The 3 L’s: Location, Location, Location

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 … Continue reading

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WPS – A new standard for processing georelated tasks

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard. The WPS standard defines an interface that facilitates the publishing of geospatial processes and makes it easier to … Continue reading

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Is there Potential for Location Based Services (LBSs)?

Worldwide subscribers to location-based communications services on mobile devices will increase by nearly 168 per cent in 2008 while revenue will grow by 169 per cent, according to Gartner, Inc. Figure 1: Current numbers and estimation about subscibers for location … Continue reading

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