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1.1. What are LBS?

Learning Objectives

  • You will be able to identify the basic components of a given application.
  • You will be able to formulate questions from given LBS keywords which help to analyse LBS applications.
  • Given a service you will be able to identify if it is a push or a pull service and explain your decision.

In the following subsections some major characteristics and definitions on LBS will be given. We will discuss the relation between GIS and LBS and give some Keywords which are useful to describe the LBS Technology. Later the basic LBS components are introduced shortly. Finally we will explain what a Push and a Pull Service is.



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