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Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering (Mastering GIS: Technol, Applications & Mgmnt)

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Brimicombe and Li offer a quick description of the possibilities of Location Based Services, at a level that deprecates the engineering and computing aspects. Hence the book can be read by a non-technical person, as well as by an engineer.

The prospects for LBS are promising and some applications may have global scope. We see that many existing LBS-type applications, and no doubt future ones, will likely be for users having cellphones. A necessary condition for LBS is where the user is mobile, and where the user's location and perhaps velocity are vital inputs to ascertaining the user's need for the LBS. When this is combined with the many users who own cellphones, and the ability of many phones to return some location information about themselves, then by default LBS is pragmatically equivalent to using this data.

However, at least for me, I found no compelling new LBS to leap out of the pages. If you want to read this book for such hints, perhaps you will have better luck.