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Thứ Ba, 28 tháng 8, 2012

Mobile Geo-Location API Helps Increase Online Social Interaction

By Ken Collins


Mobile and LBS services are increasingly becoming a common attribute of smartphone's as well as other portable devices. Mobile location based services are enabling developers to make use of the location of a device as a good control input, and software application developers are finding revolutionary ways to implement it inside a growing assortment of programs. So how does LBS enable an an application developer to better their programs?

Automatic tagging

Applications that permit people to show textual content, pictures and movies are popular. Considering the ubiquity of social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, Internet users are uploading and sharing media with each other during their day. Mobile location based services allows for developers to automatically determine where a users images were taken from. This capability means that users are able to scan their very own media along with their friends' media of photographs and movies of points of interest and geographical locations.

Facilitate contact

One of the leading complaints about social media and the extensive accessibility of the Web is it causes users to become separated from society. A program integrated with a mobile geo-location API, however, is able to mitigate this complaint by allowing users to find contacts who are in the area. LBS can also be employed in conjunction with GPS capabilities to help people pick a path to parties and other gatherings. LBS and mobile geo-location APIs are making social networking into a platform that improves human interaction instead of decreasing it.

Innovative control input for games

Mobile and LBS services are being used as an input tool for a variety of games and game-like apps. As gaming shifts beyond the console controller, mouse and keyboard to new sorts of input, developers have realized that LBS can help them build imaginative games that are played by transferring from different places. The resolution with which these APIs can function is making a wider range of options available. It is also allowing the "gamification" of exercise; running, as an example, may be monitored and stored as the program sets goals and targets for the user.

Location tracking for data analysis

The term "crowdsourcing" has become popular and LBS is allowing apps to take advantage of user-generated data help build sophisticated bases of information that would otherwise impossible to build. Traffic analysis, for instance, is greatly aided because they are able to track users' routes, speed as well as other variables. Driving delays can be discovered immediately, and traffic patterns that video footage and surveys cannot find can be revealed. A GPS application can utilize this data to automatically reroute drivers.




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