GPS has been with us for many years, and this is what most consumers think about when they hear the term location-based services (LBS).
While the satellite-based routing capability needed to help us get directions will remain an important capability for the foreseeable future, location-based services is morphing into something that is well beyond what the original creators envisioned.Indeed, as we progress to a more autonomous world, the future will be driven by a required knowledge of location, both internally and externally to our immediate environment.
This includes in-building and other enclosed spaces, something GPS is not capable of providing.
Further, location will be used as a filter for providing many forms of additional related data.
Knowing what around us is the only way we can operate autonomous &things& as well as mobile devices doing real work.
Finally, the notion of what is a map is changing dramatically as high-resolution images, environmental factors, and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) capability make their way into location-enabled apps.