基于位置的服务(Location Based Service，LBS)，它是通过电信移动运营商的无线电通讯网络（如GSM网、CDMA网）或外部定位方式(如GPS)获取移动终端用户的位置信息（地理坐标，或大地坐标），在GIS(Geographic Information System，地理信息系统)平台的支持下，为用户提供相应服务的一种增值业务。
以下是由伦敦城市大学Jonathan Raper客座教授整理的LBS相关的网址链接，和大家共享。
LBS in action
- Traffic-i - Live Traffic information on your ...
- ITIS Holdings - FVD - What is FVD?
- Amaze Java LBS
- Plazes beta
- GeoVector
- KDDI EZ Navi Walk
- Imadoko Location Confirmation Service (Google Translated)
- Mobile traffic services
- Cell-alert
- Nearby Now geo SMS service
- Zurfer Location based photo browser
- Camineo Location based guides
LBS research teams/ projects
- Mobile VCE
- Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Lancaster
- giCentre, City University, London
- Intel Place Lab
- CASA, UCL, London
- i3Mainz
- GIMODIG
- EML Deep Map Home
- Webpark
- Tartu, Estonia
- Geography, UCSB
- Research at Nokia
- CS at Columbia
- IS at Aalborg
- Microsoft
- Globis, Zurich
- Senseable City, MIT
- ESRI, Loughboro: Mobile& Telecoms
- Geomatics, Melbourne
- Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham
- Positioning and Wireless Technology centre, Singapore
- RCGIST, *
- Navitime, Japan
- Irish National Centre for Geocomputation
- Institute of Pervasive Computing
- Geomatics, Calgary
- Mobile Maps
LBS standards and industry bodies
- Welcome to Open Mobile Alliance: location
- Welcome to the Mobile Data Association
- Open Location Services Initiative Home Page
- Windows Mobile and GPS
LBS Journals
- The Journal of Location Based Services
- The Communications Network
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing - Past Issues
- Int. J. of Mobile Communications - IJMC
- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
- IEEE Pervasive Computing - Past Issues
- MC2R | Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Mobile retailers (UK, at present)
Mobile devices
Mobile development
- SPV-Developers.com
- MetaCarta
- Nokia Mobile Search
- Getting Started With the Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME (JSR 184)
- SourceForge.net: Autopilot UAV
- Mobility- Microsoft
- Geodan Movida
- Cybird Japan
- MoBe
- Navteq Developers site
- 3D Flash with Sandy
- Where.com developer tools
- Qualcomm BREW Development site
LBS blogging, news and link sites
- PocketPC GPS and Navigation links
- edparsons.com
- Russell Beattie Blog
- Geobloggers
- Mobile Monday
- LBS zone
LBS research groups/ organisations
Geopositioning
Maps for mobile devices
Mobile GIS
- GPSNavXa - Marine Navigation & Charting Application for OS X
- GPS Pilot: How to do it?
- Arcpad
- Welcome To Marcosoft for Palm
- Webraska: Real-time maps for WAP phones
- Quakr