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Future for location based services and Android

Philipp Kandal / Twitter: @apphil / CTO & Co-Founder skobbler / GM Telenav Europe 9th April 2014

Trends for Location based services

Maps / Location are going to be fully everywhere

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Location based services are having a huge breakthrough

Trends for Location based services

#1 Augmented reality & Glasses

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Finally AR is making a breakthrough

Trends for Location based services

#1 Google Glass: Navigation example

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#2 Smart watches

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#2 Smart watches: Navivation integration

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#3 Car integration (MirrorLink / CarPlay / Windows in the car / Android in the car)

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#4 Rise of indoor location (NFC & iBeacon)

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NFC would be a huge boost for indoor location and payment

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#4 iBeacon: Short range indoor location

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Trends for Location based services (Right map ODBL @OpenStreetMap)

#5 Styling – custom maps based on app UI

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Pushed by: Google Maps API and Mapbox

Trends for Location based services (Maps OdBL @OpenStreetMap)

#5 Styling – custom maps based on app UI

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#6 The rise of open data and open maps

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OSM Introduction

OpenStreetMap facts The OpenStreetMap community grows continuously and is very active.

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#7 Always-on location

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2014 / 2015 low-power GPS receivers will cause breakthrough for always on location services

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#8 Glonass & more accurate location

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Modern phones include multi-band GPS / GLONASS receivers for faster and more accurate positioning

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#9 Geofencing (preserves battery)

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Google Play Services 4.0+ (with great battery live)

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#10 HTML5 Geolocation and IP fallback

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Location is becoming a key ingredient in all modern browsers

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#11 Discovery over searching

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XYZ

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#12 From distance to time based

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Normal users don’t understand km – use minutes

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LBS are moving in very fast

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Recommended reading

Further reading

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�  Apphil.net (My blog on mobile & location)

�  Abalakov’s thoughts on OSM: www.abalakov.com

�  OpenGeoData Blog: http://opengeodata.org/

�  TNW Location blog

�  Latitude41 Blog

�  Google Geo developers blog

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