The Present and Future of Geolocation Based Applications - ginggoy1000/lolepicshop GitHub Wiki

Nowadays, businesses are including geo-location in their applications to help prospective customers find their business with ease. What is the present and future of such applications? Businesses use geo-location based applications in such a way that their prospective customers can easily find the location of the business. This helps them to easily target the local audience as they get to know that there is such a business near their house. Even, individuals these days can use a "geo-location application":http://www.archer-soft.com/en/blog/how-develop-mobile-app-geolocation/ to identify the whereabouts of their lost phone.

What is the current state?

In fact, the implementation of geolocation in mobile and web applications has come to a long way right from the early days of Google Maps. Now, a number of new applications use your location data with a view to enhancing your user experience or even to resolve a potential issue.

In the year 2010, when a school building at Haiti collapsed due to an earthquake, a "geo-location application played a major role":https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/04/5-steps-to-protect-your-smart-phone-against-theft-or-loss/index.htm/ in saving lives. Yes, one of the school children, who was trapped within the building was able to send out an SMS. Even though the rescue authorities had a hard time initially to locate the source, with the help of volunteers using that geo-location application, they were able to locate the source from where the text message was sent and the child was rescued immediately.

The internet is taking up:

Now, the power of geo-location is in the hands of the web. Nowadays, there are private app developers that use their own satellite to help their customers find their lost phone with ease. With such a service, people nowadays are able to even "Geo-Localiser un portable":https://Geolocaliserunportable.fr/.

How about the future?

In the future, Geo-location will have a further wider reach and more and more apps based on this technology are on the way in the future.