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The book provides a comprehensive introduction to developing location-based information systems based on GPS-enabled cellular phones. It describes all of the components needed to develop a location-based information system and provides readers with the opportunity to build an example application. Chapters cover obtaining a user's location, storing and retrieving data, communicating over a network, Java ME Web services, and visualizing data. In the theoretical chapters, the authors address location provider architectures, the hardware and software architecture of a mobile phone, the Java ME platform, and other important programming aspects for mobile phones--

Location-based services. --- Information services. --- Data collection services --- Information brokers --- Information centers --- Information science service organizations --- Information service providers --- Providers of information services --- Information retrieval --- Information science --- Documentation --- Research --- LBS (Information services) --- Location-based computing --- Mobile location services --- Telegeoinformatics --- Information services --- Wireless localization