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Location-Based Services: Practices and Products

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Services, web; Service, location; Positioning

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Location Services or Location-based services (LBS) are terms that have been used to describe wireless, mobile, and mostly handheld devices that use wireless communications to deliver information that conveys a geographical reference. As such, information delivered to users of cellular phones, for example, depends on the use of a device that is capable of utilizing location‐determination technology such as Global Positioning Systems or Wi-Fi to calculate a specific latitude and longitude of the device. This is a fundamental premise of LBS technology. Location becomes a supporting attribute to ancillary information related to that location such as a street address or other point of interest. Typical applications include automatic location identification (ALI) for emergency response phone calls made to a 9-1-1 dispatch operator.

However, an expanded use of the term is offered to include enterprise computing solutions of...

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  1. Koppell, I.: What are Location Services? – From a GIS Perspective, LBS360.NET (http://www.lbs360.net/LBSArticles/ESRI.What%20are%20LS%20Whitepaper.pdf)

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  1. Directions Media, Huntsville, AL, USA

    Joseph R. Francica

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Francica, J. (2008). Location-Based Services: Practices and Products. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_713

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