Creating Location-Based Services by Utilising a Web of Places

Author

Ostermaier, Benedikt ; Bolliger, Philipp

Author_Institution

Inst. for Pervasive Comput., ETH Zurich, Zurich

fYear

2008

fDate

July 28 2008-Aug. 1 2008

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

164

Abstract

We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engine for such a Web of Places, users are able to consume location-based services generated by arbitrary parties using their mobile phones. Special care has been taken in order to foster the creation of places and services and their mobile usage by users. We further discuss that by using ranking algorithms based on place and service definitions, finding services relevant to the current location by searching only by geographic position might be feasible even in case of large numbers of relevant places.

Keywords

Web services; mobile computing; search engines; Web of Places; World Wide Web; decentralized system; geospatial search engine; location-based services; mobile phones; open system; participatory system; ranking algorithms; Displays; HTML; Mobile handsets; Pervasive computing; Search engines; Uniform resource locators; Usability; Web and internet services; Web server; Web sites; geospatial search engine; location-based services; web of places;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet, 2008. SAINT 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Turku

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3297-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT.2008.49

Filename

4604561