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Location Based Services and GIS in Perspective

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Location Based Services and TeleCartography

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography ((LNGC))

Abstract

This chapter examines Location Based Services (LBS) from a broad perspective involving definitions, characteristics, and application prospects. We present an overview of LBS modeling regarding users, locations, contexts and data. The LBS modeling endeavors are cross-examined with a research agenda of geographic information science. Some core research themes are briefly identified.

This chapter is a reprint, with permission of Elsevier, of the same title initially appeared in the international journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30(6).

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  1. Division of Geomatics Dept. of Technology and Built Environment, University of Gävle, Sweden

    Bin Jiang

  2. Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Xiaobai Yao

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  1. Cartography and Geo-Mediatechniques Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, TU Vienna, Erzherzog-Johannplatz 1, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Georg Gartner

  2. School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    William Cartwright

  3. Department of Geography/Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 68182, USA

    Michael P. Peterson

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Jiang, B., Yao, X. (2007). Location Based Services and GIS in Perspective. In: Gartner, G., Cartwright, W., Peterson, M.P. (eds) Location Based Services and TeleCartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36728-4_3

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