Location-based service (LBS) is a general term denoting software services which use geographic data and information to provide services or information...
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player's location. Location-based games must provide some mechanism to allow the player to report their location, usually with GPS. Many location-based games...
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The Service Location Protocol (SLP, srvloc) is a service discovery protocol that allows computers and other devices to find services in a local area network...
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Location-based advertising (LBA) is a form of advertising that integrates mobile advertising with location-based services. The technology is used to pinpoint...
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(GPS) – American satellite-based radio navigation service Locale (geographic) Location, Location, Location Location Location Location Australia Gersmehl, Philip...
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Mozilla Location Service (MLS) is an open geolocation service which allows devices to find their position by processing their received signals of publicly...
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users alongside location-based social networks (LBSN), like Foursquare, Gowalla, Swarm, and Yelp. In addition to geosocial networking services, traditional...
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Advanced Mobile Location (or AML) is a free-of-charge emergency location-based service (LBS) available on smartphones that, when a caller dials the local...
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Life360 (section Location sharing)
is a San Francisco, California–based American information technology company that provides location-based services, including sharing and notifications...
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Targeted advertising (redirect from Location-based targeting)
target these individuals based on their geographic location. A location-based service (LBS) is a mobile information service that allows spatial and temporal...
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use involves a location-aware device of a location-based service (LBS) user entering or exiting a geofence. Geofencing approach is based on the observation...
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Mobile phone tracking (redirect from Location information)
Communications (GSM) is based on the phone's signal strength to nearby antenna masts. Mobile positioning may be used for location-based services that disclose the...
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information and services based on subscriber context and metadata. Local Location Assistant (Lol@): Prototype of a location-based multimedia service for a Universal...
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in concert. A video game may be an AR game, a location-based game, both, or neither. Geolocation-based video games use GPS. Games such as Pokémon Go and...
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Locative media (redirect from Location-based media)
RTLS coordinate-based triggers applied to each media sequence. As the location-aware device enters the selected area, centralized services trigger the assigned...
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In computing, User Location Service was a standards-based protocol for directory services and presence information, first submitted as a draft to the IETF...
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Internet geolocation (redirect from Geographical location information)
Geolocation on web-based social network services can be IP-based or use hotspot trilateration. For mobile social networks, texted location information or...
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Dodgeball was a location-based social networking software provider for mobile devices. Users texted their locations to the service, which then notified...
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Geosocial networking (redirect from Location-based social networking)
Geolocation on web-based social network services can be IP-based or use hotspot trilateration. For mobile social networks, texted location information or...
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Azure Maps (category Microsoft cloud services)
cloud-based, location-based services provided by Microsoft as part of the company's Azure platform. The platform provides geospatial and location-based services...
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user. The selection of content is based on the analysis of browsing history, user-specified preferences, location, time of day and other factors. The...
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The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices in six regions. Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of...
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developers of location-based service (LBS) applications to access multiple device platforms. The standard also opens the location-based advertising (LBA)...
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based in Mountain View, California, which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people. The service supported...
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full-time equivalent staff in 2014 were based overseas at 115 locations. From 2014 the service became part of World Service Group under the Director of BBC News...
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Location-based routing is a system of rules to varying degrees of complexity dictating where inbound telephone calls from various locations are routed...
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Enhanced 911 (redirect from Caller location)
more stringent location accuracy requirements. If enacted, this rule would require both "handset based" and "network based" location techniques to meet...
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Indoor positioning system (redirect from Indoor location)
Aiden (2011). "An Evaluation of Indoor Location Determination Technologies". Journal of Location Based Services. 5 (2): 61–78. doi:10.1080/17489725.2011...
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Meetro (category Defunct social networking services)
Meetro was a multi-network social messenger with location-based services (LBS). It was compatible with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger...
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Distributed GIS (section Location-Based Services)
online mapping systems (such as Google Maps and Bing Maps), Location-based services (LBS), web-based GIS (such as ArcGIS Online) and numerous map-enabled applications...
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