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
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
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
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
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
