Chapter 14. Location-Aware Web Applications
The App Store offers a myriad of applications that bring users services based on where they are at some particular moment, such as Where by uLocate, a multilocation-based services aggregator, or Foursquare, which offers a new way to discover your city.
By crossing information from growing spatial-related databases with the approximate position of the user, you get to suggest the perfect place to eat homemade chili con carne, customize the user experience by giving the impression you actually know about the user, give the relevant afternoon's weather, or show a map with the appropriate directions to any address. Since its very first release, the iPhone has featured ways to locate the user on a world map. ...
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