Standardizing location-based services (LBS)

The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this.

1. ISO 19134

"ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of multimodal location-based services for routing and navigation. It is designed to specify web services that may be made available to wireless devices through web-resident proxy applications, but is not limited to that environment."

2. Scholars develop protocol for 'LBS,' new wireless Internet technology


Photo Source: University of Illinois-UC

University of Illinois professor of urban and regional planning T. John Kim, along with University of Illinois postdoctoral fellow Sung-Gheel Jang, have developed the protocol for international standard for geographic information systems (GIS), which Kim says is the "backbone" of location- based services (LBS). He says the LBS protocol has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and endorsed by 29 nations so far.

"LBS combine hardware devices, wireless communication networks, geographic information and software applications that provide location-related guidance for customers," Kim says. "It differs from mobile position determination systems such as global positioning systems in that location-based services provide much broader, application-oriented location services."

Via the ACM. See article at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau.

3. From the Geographic information/Geomatics Technical Committee:

Standards of ISO Technical Committee 211 - Geographic information/Geomatics

4. Summary of related Spatial Data ISO standards:

a. Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards -- Access, Technology
ISO 19116 - Positioning services
ISO 19117 - Portrayal
ISO 19118 - Encoding
ISO 19119 - Services
ISO 19125-1 - Simple feature access -Common architecture
ISO 19125-2 - SFA - SQL option
ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface
ISO 19132 - Location based services possible standards
ISO 19133 - Location based services tracking and navigation
ISO 19134 - Multimodal location based services for routing and navigation
ISO 19136 - Geography Markup Language (GML)
ISO 19142 - Web Feature Service
ISO 19143 - Filter encoding

b. Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards -- Content
ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language
ISO 19107 - Spatial schema - ISO 19108 - Temporal schema
ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema
ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology
ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates
ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO 19113 - Quality principles
ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures
ISO 19115 - Metadata - ISO/TR 19121 - Imagery and gridded data
ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and functions
ISO 19124 - Imagery and gridded data components
ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters
ISO 19129 - Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
ISO 19130 - Sensor and data model for imagery and gridded data
ISO 19131 - Data product specification
ISO 19137 - Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas
ISO 19138 - Data quality measures
ISO 19139 - Metadata - Implementation Specification
ISO 19141- Schema for moving features