Download or read book Progress in Location-Based Services 2014 written by Georg Gartner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a general picture of recent research activities related to location-based services. Such activities emerged in the last years especially concerning issues of outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environment, spatial modelling, personalization and context-awareness, cartographic communication, novel user interfaces, crowdsourcing, social media, big data analysis, usability and privacy. This book is comprised of a selection of the best papers presented during the 11th International Symposium on Location Based Services, which was held in Vienna (Austria) between 26th and 28th November 2014.