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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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Francica, J.R. (2017). Location-Based Services: Practices and Products. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_713
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