Cloud-Based Spatial Information Service Architecture within LBS

Tingyan Xing, Shang Zhang, Liufeng Tao

Faculty of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/pos.2014.53008                

Abstract

Location Based Services (LBS) have become a popular technology to retrieve information about the surroundings of a mobile user which results in ubiquitous demand of spatial information service with diverse needs of different types of users. The aim of this paper is to reveal the potential of cloud-based spatial information service architecture that plays an integral role in LBS design and practice. This paper analyzes the characteristics of the spatial information of cloud services, such as data access transparency, spatial analysis parallelization, service capabilities flexible, information services standardization, service aggregation visualization, re-development flexible. This paper provides a possible solution to overcome the LBS service issues. In this paper, the short review of LBS and Cloud computing are given first and then the possibility of LBS design with cloud computing are analyzed. At last, cloud-based spatial information service architecture is proposed.

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Spatial Information Cloud Services, LBS, Introduction

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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