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Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services?

Bahrehdar, Azam Raha; Koblet, Olga; Purves, Ross S (2019). Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services? Journal of Location Based Services, 13(2):73-93.

Abstract

Despite the seemingly obvious importance of a link between notions of place and the provision of context in location-based services (LBS), truly place-based LBS remain rare. Place is attractive as a concept for designing services as it focuses on ways in which people, rather than machines, represent and talk about places. We review papers which have extracted place-relevant information from a variety of sources, examining their rationales, the data sources used, the characteristics of the data under study and the ways in which place is represented. Although the data sources used are subject to a wide range of biases, we find that existing methods and data sources are capable of extracting a wide range of place-related information. We suggest categories of LBS which could profit from such information, for example, by using place-related natural language (e.g. vernacular placenames) in tracking and routing services and moving the focus from geometry to place semantics in location-based retrieval. A key future challenge will be to integrate data derived from multiple sources if we are to advance from individual case studies focusing on a single aspect of place to services which can deal with multiple aspects of place.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
Dewey Decimal Classification:910 Geography & travel
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Signal Processing
Physical Sciences > Computer Networks and Communications
Physical Sciences > Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Uncontrolled Keywords:Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Language:English
Date:3 April 2019
Deposited On:18 Dec 2019 15:37
Last Modified:22 Dec 2024 02:37
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
ISSN:1748-9725
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2018.1564383
Project Information:
  • Funder: SNSF
  • Grant ID: 200021_149823
  • Project Title: Place-based map generalization (PlaceGen)
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