Developing GIS-supported location-based services
Virrantaus, K.; Markkula, J.; Garmash, A.; Terziyan, V.; Veijalainen, J.; Katanosov, A.; Tirri, H.
Web Information Systems Engineering, 2001. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Volume 2, Issue , 3-6 Dec 2001 Page(s):66 - 75 vol.2
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/WISE.2001.996708
Summary:Mobile networking is developing and proliferating at a high speed.
Many estimates say that the number of mobile telecom subscribers will
exceed 1 billion in the year 2003. Among the terminals deployed, there
will be hundreds of millions of Internet-enabled ones making Mobile
Internet a reality for the big masses. The terminals and/or the mobile
networks are now able to determine the position of the terminal on the
earth with more and more precision. This is the basis for the new class
of services called Location-Based Services (LBS). The paper discusses
this new emerging application area that some people consider the central
novel application class of Mobile Internet. The main topic of the paper
is the question, how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data
hosted currently by them could be used in the context of LBS. We analyze
their properties and relate them with the needs of LBS. We also present
our LBS pilot system that is using XML-based vector formal for city maps
and runs on Java-enabled mobile terminals, PDAs and smartphones
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