• DocumentCode
    253497
  • Title

    Comparison of web applications geolocation services

  • Author

    Kysela, Jiri

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    19-21 Nov. 2014
  • Firstpage
    449
  • Lastpage
    453
  • Abstract
    This article deals with WiFi based geolocation in web applications. This is the only one possible method of location in mobile devices (notebook, tablet or smartphone) which are not equiped with a navigation system such as GPS - other known methods such as IP or cellular network location are not commonly used in applications due to their high inaccuracy. The location accuracy has a key role for usability of applications offering location based services (LBS) because a lot of them, widely used by public, are dependent on a very accurate location. Therefore the main goal of this article is an analysis of accuracy of WiFi geolocation services used by web applications in current web browsers. Measurement of accuracy of WiFi geolocation services and comparison between them is the result of this article.
  • Keywords
    Internet; geography; mobile computing; online front-ends; wireless LAN; LBS; Web applications geolocation service comparison; Web browsers; WiFi based geolocation; location accuracy; location based services; mobile devices; Accuracy; Browsers; Geology; Global Positioning System; Google; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mobile handsets;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI), 2014 IEEE 15th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Budapest
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CINTI.2014.7028717
  • Filename
    7028717