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Location and Cartographic Integration for Multi-
Providers Location Based Services
Roula Karam
1 3
, Frank Favetta
1
, Rima Kilany
2
, Robert Laurini
1
1
LIRIS CNRS UMR 5205, INSA de Lyon, Université de Lyon
F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
roula.karam@insa-lyon.fr, franck.favetta@insa-lyon.fr, robert.laurini@insa-lyon.fr
2
ESIB, Faculté d'Ingénierie, Universite Saint Joseph
B.P:11-514, Beirut, Lebanon
rima.kilany@usj.edu.lb
3
Naval Academy Research Institute, Lanveoc-Poulmic, BP 600, 29240, Brest Naval, France
roula.karam@ecole-navale.fr
Abstract
Since the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the
increasing popularity of mobile devices, many standardization bodies such
as OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) had proposed the implementation
of Location Based Services (LBS) applications. Furthermore, map service
providers started to use the correspondent devices for visualizing geo-
graphic data essentially based on the users' location, his contextual infor-
mation and his profile. However, many geographic databases (GDBs)
could offer slightly different data/metadata for the same requested service.
Advanced LBS have to improve interoperability among them. In this
paper, we had elaborated many reasoning algorithms and build/match
extended geo-ontology framework for the integration of homologous
objects on mobile devices. Our approach is illustrated by a tourism LBS
case study and could be applied for any geographic domain where posi-
tion, place name, semantic details and visual aspects' (icon, texture, color,
etc.) ambiguities will be integrated automatically through our platform.
