Location Web: Proposal and Implementation of Location-based Web Content Search and Creation Using a Mobile Phone

Abstract

As location positioning systems such as GPS become popular, there is a growing demand for location-based applications. It is getting easier to utilize map information by connecting a GPS receiver to a PC and PDA. Corresponding to this momentum, GPS receivers embedded into mobile phones and applications using the user location in real-time are widely available. Location information is also gaining attention as a form of meta-data for web content and is applied to the semantic web, which provides advanced search services using meta-data information. Taking advantages of these situations, the creation of web content “on the spot” in a flexible form on a mobile phone is becoming important. In this paper, we propose a system called“LocationWeb”, which provides location-based web content search and creation on the mobile phone. This uses the location information as meta-data of the web content and enables handy search services based on real time location information.