Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide [Hardcover]

Andrew Jagoe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2002

The mobility provided by the proliferation of wireless Palm Pilots, WAP phones and onboard navigation systems presents a new class of opportunities and problems for application developers. This book provides an end-to-end solution guide to understand the issues in location-based services and build solutions that will sell. Complete with software and industry case studies, this book is an essential companion to anyone wanting to buld the next killer app.

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From the Back Cover

• The first comprehensive guide to building and deploying mobile location-based services
• Detailed coverage of mobile location servers, client platforms, protocols, and standards
• Mapping, geocoding, mobile positioning, security, personalization, privacy, and more

Foreword by Joe Astroth, Executive Vice President, Autodesk Location Services

"I expect this comprehensive book to inspire a new generation of engineers and to help propel a new wave of independent software vendors. I only wish it was available to our staff as we developed some of our earliest services."

—Joe Astroth,
Executive Vice President,
Autodesk Location Services

The first start-to-finish guide to developing location-based services.

Tomorrow's mobile applications must be smarter than ever, accessing and intelligently using a wide range of location data. In Mobile Location Services, leading mobile application consultant Andrew Jagoe presents the first end-to-end solutions guide to building and deploying location-based services and applications. Jagoe addresses every key development challenge and presents insightful case studies and interviews with key industry leaders.

• Mobile location servers and the components of an end-to-end location-based solution
• Spatial analysis: digital mapping, geocoding, routing, map image generation, and point-of-interest searches
• Mobile positioning: using and augmenting GPS technology
• Authentication and security in location-based applications
• Personalization, profiling, and privacy
• Mobile location clients: platform, protocols, languages, and localization issues
• Key applications: navigation, emergency assistance, travel services, advertising/marketing, and more
• Includes detailed appendices on the Geography Markup Language (GML), the Location Interoperability Forum's Mobile Location Protocol, and P3P privacy standards

CD-ROM INCLUDED

The accompanying CD-ROM contains several useful tools for developing mobile location services, as well as a list of important resources on the Internet.

About the Author

ANDREW JAGOE, one of the world's leading consultants on mobile location services, has worked closely with both customers for location services development tools and the companies that market these tools. Jagoe developed the Java sample applications bundled with the Kivera Location Server and wrote the first Java API for another leading location server product.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education (December 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130084565
• ISBN-13: 978-0130084569
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,517,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Vague, August 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide (Hardcover)

The back cover praise says "I only wish it was available to our staff as we developed some of our earliest services."

This might be true for somebody who has been a lawyer or a doctor his whole life and then one morning wakes up with the idea of building a Mobile Location Service.

On the other end anybody who only knows what Mobile Location Services are all about will find this book poor.

It just tells what is all the stuff you might need without delving into any detail. It simply restates the problem. For example the chapter about map displaying is only about "illuminating" us on what a rasted image is compared to a vectorial. At the end of it you won't know anything you didn't know before and won't be anywhere ahead to building your service.

In the end it looks more like a newspaper Sunday edition article to be read by that lawyer or that doctor than like a book who could be of any use to somebody wishing to build a Mobile Location Service.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars what! appendices more than the content?, February 3, 2004

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"lkngin" (Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide (Hardcover)

Well, i'm not sure if this is a rush job. One of the chapter is just 5 pages long and the appendices are having more number of pages than the content. Reason is, the GML, LIF and P3P specification could have been provided as an URL instead of printing the whole thing in the book. Can anyone imagine that. Not up to my expectation as "the definitive guide".

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What to expect, March 30, 2006

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Anna Boyko (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide (Hardcover)

Expect this book to inspire a new generation of engineers and help propel a new wave of independent software vendors.
Jagoe's book on mobile location services will be viewed as a technology classic and a key reference work.
I continue to consult it on daily bases.
What types of mobile location services are likely to provide successful , and therefore worhty of the application developer's time and effort? This book will point to that.