A critical evaluation of location based services and their potential

This editorial lead article for the "Journal of Location Based Services" surveys this complex and multi-disciplinary field and identifies the key research issues. Although this field has produced early commercial disappointments, the inevitability that pervasive location-aware services on mobile devices will emerge means that much research is needed to inform these developments. The article reviews firstly: the science and technology of positioning, geographic information science, mobile cartography, spatial cognition and interfaces, information science, ubiquitous computing; and secondly the business, content and legal, social and ethics aspects, before synthesising the key issues for this new field.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/17489720701584069
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/17489725
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor & Francis
• Authors:
  • Raper, Jonathan
  • Gartner, Georg
  • Karimi, Hassan
  • Rizos, Chris
• Publication Date: 2007-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 5-45
• Serial:
  • Journal of Location Based Services
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1748-9725
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tlbs20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Businesses; Cartography; Cognition; Ethics; Evaluation and assessment; Geographic information systems; Interfaces; Legal factors; Location based services; Mobile sources; Positioning; Research; Social factors
• Uncontrolled Terms: Critical analysis; Information science; Potential
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082612
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:30AM