Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide

• The first comprehensive guide to building and deploying mobile location-based services
• Detailed coverage of mobile location servers, client platforms, protocols, and standards
• Mapping, geocoding, mobile positioning, security, personalization, privacy, and more
• Includes extensive applications coverage and new case studies
• CD-ROM contains Kivera Location Engine plus extensive Java code library

Foreword by Joe Astroth, Executive Vice President, Autodesk Location Services

"I expect this comprehensive book to inspire a new generation of engineers and to help propel a new wave of independent software vendors. I only wish it was available to our staff as we developed some of our earliest services."

—Joe Astroth,
Executive Vice President,
Autodesk Location Services

The first start-to-finish guide to developing location-based services.

Tomorrow's mobile applications must be smarter than ever, accessing and intelligently using a wide range of location data. In Mobile Location Services, leading mobile application consultant Andrew Jagoe presents the first end-to-end solutions guide to building and deploying location-based services and applications. Jagoe addresses every key development challenge, presents insightful case studies and interviews with key industry leaders, and includes all the licensed software and Java sample code you need to start building location-based solutions today.

• Mobile location servers and the components of an end-to-end location-based solution
• Spatial analysis: digital mapping, geocoding, routing,map image generation, and point-of-interest searches
• Mobile positioning: using and augmenting GPS technology
• Authentication and security in location-based applications
• Personalization, profiling, and privacy
• Mobile location clients: platform, protocols, languages, and localization issues
• Key applications: navigation, emergency assistance, travel services, advertising/marketing, and more
• Includes detailed appendices on the Geography Markup Language (GML), the Location Interoperability Forum's Mobile Location Protocol, and P3P privacy standards

CD-ROM INCLUDED

The accompanying CD-ROM contains a functioning evaluation version of the Kivera Location Engine, a Software Development Kit that provides the key building blocks for developing location-based solutions, as well as all Java code from the book.