Location-based Services

1. Location-based Services: Where Wireless Meets GIS - Joe Francica and Louis Hecht, Business Geographics, Oct 2000

2. Hype vs. Reality of Location-Based Services – looking back LBS at the end of 2001, Jim VanderMeer, Directions Magazine, Jan 2002

3. Making Sense of Location-based Services new  - Don't understand what all the players are doing in LBS?  This may help make sense of the mess, Adena Schutzberg, GIS Monitor

4. What Does the Future Hold for Mobile Location Services?  - David Sonnen, Business Geographics, Jan 2001

5. Location-Based Services in Japan - Carlos Camacho, Allnetdevices.com, Jan 24, 2001

6. Location-based Services: A Complete Guide to Companies and Organizations - Matt Ball and Joe Francica, Business Geographics, Jan 2001, a detailed listing

7. Heading in the Right Direction?: Location Based Services  - GeoEurope, Jan 2001

8. Company Leaders Discuss the Emergence of a New Industry: - Business Geographics, Jan 2001, interviews with Don Winters, COO of SignalSoft, and Lew Turnquist, COO of Cell-Loc
9. Startup To Offer Promising Location-Based Services - A. Schutzberg, GIS Monitor
10. Location-Based Services: Not the Be All and End All
     - UK.internet.com, Feb 15, 2001

Recommended

• Will Wireless Location-based Services Pay Off? - Jim VanderMeer, Business Geographics, Feb 2001
• Where's the Value in Location Services? - Harry Niedzwiadek, jlocationservices.com
• Synch This: Solving the Location Conundrum - Susan Kuchinskas, M-Business, Feb 2001
• The Power of Babble Congregating around LBS - Jonathan W. Lowe, GeoSpatial Solutions, Feb 2001
• New Location Products Emerge from GPS, Wireless Convergence - Joseph Schwartz, NavGlobe
• Location-Based Mobile Services On The Way - Richard Adhikari, PlantIT, Dec 2000
• LBS Technology Delivers Information Where and When It's Needed - Jay Benson, Business Geographics, Feb 2001
• Are Mobile Wireless Location-based Services Hype or Reality? - Carl Reed, Business Geographics, Feb 2001

• What If... - Robert Barr, GeoEurope, Mar 2001, further fears about location-based services

• Introduction to Location-based Services - anywhereyougo.com, Mar 2001

• Beware the Hazards of Telematics - Mikkel Pind Schultz, Mobile Computing Online, Feb 28, 2001

• GIS Providers Discuss The Spatial Side of Location-based Services - interviews with George Moon of MapInfo and Ian Koeppel of ESRI, Business Geographics Apr 2001

• Are Location Services Ready for Prime Time? - David Haskin, Allnetdevices, May 8, 2001, the answer is NO, there are no standards

• Report: Operators May Stifle Location-Based Services - slow rollout will impede LBS, Steve Gold,  NewsFactor Network, May 31, 2001
• Location-based Services:  A Balanced View - Graham Brown, GeoEurope, Oct 2001
• Location-Based Services And Topology - discussion of interoperability and topology for LBS, Jim McGeough, Spatial News
• Adding Location Based Services for the Web - Part 1 - putting a find the nearest app on your website, Robert Chou, Directions Magazine, Dec 2001
• Location Dependent Services: Intergraph's Vision towards "Wireless GIS" - Kees van der Lei, GeoInformatics, Sept 2000

See also:  location based services products, mobile and handheld GIS