LocationBased

Nice interview of Thomas Landspurg, founder of 8Motions, and a friend from France, on the importance and use of Cell-IDs for location-based mobile applications. Thomas is the creator of the OpenCellId project: This project is an open source project, aiming to create a complete database of CellID worlwide, with their locations. The project provides free … Read more

Little Springs Design is an expert in Mobile User Experience. Barbara Steven recently wrote a good piece titled location is not GPS, where she covers design and development of location services. Quoting from her essay: So, to guide our design and development of location services, remember that: Every phone is location enabled. As long as … Read more

The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this. 1. ISO 19134 “ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of multimodal location-based services for routing and navigation. It is designed to specify web services that … Read more

GTX Corp Xplorer is the company's next generation of GPS tracking footwear. When combined with the company's tracking Internet portal, it allows users to apply geofencing to receive SMS alerts when the person wearing the shoes go outside the predefined area. Use it to track your children, spouse or significant other… And remember to charge … Read more

Sprint has released a new service, to help you track your kids… … or track your wife, or husband, or significant other… :-/ … And for only $9.99 a month… Expect more services such as this one, 1st from startups, then from your network provider – monitor the location of family members, employees, pets, horses, … Read more

We are seeing increased use of location data in mobility solutions such as mobile social software and in employee tracking solutions. And it is important to remind ourselves, the mobility developers, product managers and people in general whom are responsible for the creation of location-based services (LBS) and applications about the responsibilities that come with … Read more

Russell Buckley of the Mobile Technology Weblog wrote a very good entry about his perspective on location tracking and employees. It is a good read. He refers to my Guidelines for LBS Applications, which I hope helps create awareness about this important area/situation. ceo

As a person who has been involved in the development of location-based solutions, I see and understand the benefits of geo-fencing, especially for tracking expensive and/or sensitive assets such as vehicles, (perishable) merchandise, or similar. But if applied to people, and if abused, this technology opens a serious “privacy can of worms”… See Notes on … Read more