LBS and TeleCartography: About the book -- LBS and TeleCartography: About the book -- General Aspects -- Design constraints on operational LBS -- Location Based Services and GIS in Perspective -- A Market and User View on LBS -- What makes Location-Based Services fail? -- The Transition from Internet to Mobile Mapping -- Theory and development of research in ubiquitous mapping -- Positioning -- Positioning LBS to the third dimension -- Altitude Determination of a Pedestrian in a Multistorey Building -- Terminal-Centric Location Services in the IP Multimedia Subsystem -- WiKaF - A Knowledge-based Kalman-Filter for Pedestrian Positioning -- Map-independent positioning of land vehicles with causative modified motion equations -- Modelling and Awareness -- Shortest Path Search in Multi-Representation Street Databases -- Region-Based Representation for Assistance with Spatio-Temporal Planning in Unfamiliar Environments -- A Logic-Based Foundation for Spatial Relationships in Mobile GIS Environment -- From Turn-By-Turn Directions to Overview Information on the Way to Take -- Geocoding Japanese Walking Directions using Sidewalk Network Databases -- The concept of relevance in mobile maps -- A Knowledge-Based Map Adaptation Approach for Mobile Map Services -- A visual editor for OGC SLD files for automating the configuration of WMS and mobile map applications -- Towards Orientation-Aware Location Based Mobile Services -- Geo-Services and Computer Vision for Object Awareness in Mobile System Applications -- Visualisation and Cartographic Communication -- How to design a pedestrian navigation system for indoor and outdoor environments -- Dancing_without_gravity: A story of interface design -- Landmarks and the perception of a space in web-delivered 3D-worlds -- Comparing the effects of different 3D representations on human wayfinding -- An Approach towards Semantics-Based Navigation in 3D City Models on Mobile Devices -- The World as a User Interface: Augmented Reality for Ubiquitous Computing -- “Anywhere Augmentation”: Towards Mobile Augmented Reality in Unprepared Environments -- Open Content Web Mapping Service: A Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Approach -- Applications -- Mobile Landscapes: Graz in Real Time -- The Spatial Accuracy of Mobile Positioning: Some experiences with Geographical Studies in Estonia -- A Framework for Decision-Centred Visualisation in Civil Crisis Management -- Providing an Information Infrastructure for Map Based LBS - The approach of the City of Vienna -- MoGeo: A location-based educational service -- Bata Positioning System - A real time tracking system for the world’s largest relay race -- Smartphone-based information and navigation aids for public transport travellers -- EASYGO — A public transport query and guiding LBS -- Mobile City Explorer: An innovative GPS and Camera Phone Based Travel Assistant for City Tourists -- Development of Cultural Inheritance Information System using LBS Technologies for Tourists -- LWD-Infosystem Tirol — visual information about the current avalanche situation via mobile devices -- Spatial tracking in sport.

This book presents a general picture of research-driven activities related to location- and map-based services. This type of research has emerged in recent years in the areas of positioning, spatial modeling, and cartographic communication as well as in the emerging fields of ubiquitous cartography, geopervasive services and user-centered modeling. The innovative and contemporary character of these areas of research results in a great variety of interdisciplinary contributions, from academia to business, and computer science to geodesy. While contemporary cartography is exploring new and efficient ways of communicating spatial information, the development and availability of mobile devices, mobile networking and short-range sensors lead to interesting new means of conveying locational information. By attempting to make use of the available technology, cartographers and a variety of researchers from related disciplines look specifically at user-centered and context-aware system development as well as new forms of supporting wayfinding and navigational systems.