Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering

Professor Allan Brimicombe is Head of the Centre for Geo-Information Studies at the University of East London. Prior to this he was the founding Head of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University which in turn was preceded by a successful international career in consulting engineering.

Mastering GIS Series: Foreword Preface 1 The Context of Location-Based Services 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Information Society 1.3 The Digital City 1.4 The New Mobility 1.5 Outline of Following Chapters 2 Technological Convergence: Towards Location-Based Services 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Internet and World Wide Web 2.3 New Information and Communication Technologies 2.4 Geographical Information Systems 2.5 Convergence of Technologies 3 GIS and Geo-Information Engineering 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Where is ... ? How Do I Get there? 3.3 Defining GIS 3.4 Exploring GIS Software 3.5 Issues of GIScience 3.6 GI Engineering: the Rise of Ubiquitous GIS? 4 Location-Based Services 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Are Location-Based Services New? 4.3 From Locating Services to Location-Based Services 4.4 E911 and E112 Mandates 4.5 Keitai 4.6 LBS Architecture 4.7 Application Areas 4.8 Implications of LBS for GIScience 5 Data for Location-Based Services 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Size and Granularity of the Problem 5.3 Data Collection Technologies 5.4 Data Quality Issues 5.5 Organizing and Accessing Data 6 Locating the User 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Positioning Technologies 6.3 Global Positioning System 6.4 Network-Based Positioning Technologies 6.5 Short Range Positioning Technologies 6.6 Hybrid Positioning Approaches 7 Context in Location-Based Services 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Context and Context-Awareness 7.3 Context in LBS 7.4 Environment as Context 7.5 Technology as Context 7.6 User as Context 7.7 Dynamics of Context 8 The Spatial Query 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Geometric Data 8.3 Topological Data 8.4 Attribute Data 8.5 Indexing Spatial Databases 8.6 Issues of Data Temporality 8.7 Spatial Queries 9 Communication in Location-Based Services 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Modes of Communication in LBS 9.3 Maps in LBS 9.4 Issues Around Modes of Communication in LBS 9.5 Learning from Spatial Information 9.6 Multimodal and Context-Aware Modes of Communication 10 The Business of Location-Based Services 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Emerging Sectors 10.3 Emerging Products 10.4 Standardization Issues 10.5 Legal Issues 10.6 Social Issues 10.7 Conclusions Acronyms References Index