This book presents a general picture of recent research activities related to location-based services. Such activities emerged in the last years especially concerning issues of outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environment, spatial modelling, personalization and context-awareness, cartographic communication, novel user interfaces, crowdsourcing, social media, big data analysis, usability and privacy. This book is comprised of a selection of the best papers presented during the 11th International Symposium on Location Based Services, which was held in Vienna (Austria) between 26th and 28th November 2014.

The LBS conference associated with this book has a long tradition in this field and is the only international event of this kind This book is of interest for various disciplines due to the interdisciplinary content As successor of the former Springer books on LBS (LBS, LBS II, Advances in LBS, Progress in LBS), this book completes the series Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras