Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide

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Summary: A Mobile Location Tour de Force!
Review: Jagoe has set a new standard in writing what must surely become the ne plus ultra industry bible of MLS. The book brings together a wide variety of topics ranging from in-depth explanations of postioning technology and spatial analysis to an overview of market drivers and future trends. (I have found the latter to be particularly useful in setting strategy for my business in the wireless space.) Two thumbs and one antenna up for this excllent volume!

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Summary: Too Vague
Review: The back cover praise says "I only wish it was available to our staff as we developed some of our earliest services."

This might be true for somebody who has been a lawyer or a doctor his whole life and then one morning wakes up with the idea of building a Mobile Location Service.

On the other end anybody who only knows what Mobile Location Services are all about will find this book poor.

It just tells what is all the stuff you might need without delving into any detail. It simply restates the problem. For example the chapter about map displaying is only about "illuminating" us on what a rasted image is compared to a vectorial. At the end of it you won't know anything you didn't know before and won't be anywhere ahead to building your service.

In the end it looks more like a newspaper Sunday edition article to be read by that lawyer or that doctor than like a book who could be of any use to somebody wishing to build a Mobile Location Service.

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Summary: what! appendices more than the content?
Review: Well, i'm not sure if this is a rush job. One of the chapter is just 5 pages long and the appendices are having more number of pages than the content. Reason is, the GML, LIF and P3P specification could have been provided as an URL instead of printing the whole thing in the book. Can anyone imagine that. Not up to my expectation as "the definitive guide".