CHAPTER 12Mobile Geolocation

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Both mobile and desktop applications are increasingly making use of positional data to provide an improved user experience. Today’s mobile geolocation services are used to geo-tag photos, find or track nearby friends, and to find nearby businesses, among many other things. There is a definite trend towards merging social media with spatial data.

This offers the potential for greatly enhanced functionality, but also introduces risk to both its users and service providers. However, many software vendors are implementing these technologies without knowing the full impact to their customers, and many users are unaware ...

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