• 1. Foundations of LBS
  • 1.1. What are LBS?
  • 1.2. How is it useful?
    • 1.2.1. User Actions
    • 1.2.2. Examples
    • 1.2.3. Summary
  • 1.3. What’s special about it?
  • 1.4. How does it work?
  • 1.5. Summary
  • 1.6. Recommended Reading
  • 1.7. Glossary
  • 1.8. Bibliography
  • 1.9. Metadata

1.2.3. Summary

This section has provided some knowledge on user action and a lot of application examples. You should finally know the five types of user actions: locating, searching, navigating, identifying and checking and the corresponding questions like "Where am I?" or "Where is...?".
Further you should be able to give examples on the four information types of static, topical, safety and personal information.

To describe a given LBS application you should remember that this can be done in terms of

• application area (e.g. navigation, emergency, information, etc.),
• positional accuracy needs,
• application environment (indoor/outdoor), and
• delivery type (push and pull services).

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