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Personal Applications

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Title Personal Applications
Author(s) Rui Barradas Pereira.
Level Basic
Year of Publication 2011
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The availability of cheap GNSS chipsets allowed for integration of GNSS in different consumer products such as mobile phones. Given this tools individuals started to use GNSS not only for professional activities but also for leisure and entertainment purposes.

Some of these uses bring comfort to the user and can save the user time but others are just to facilitate social interactions not bringing a tangible benefit to the user. The fact that the technology is available and free to use allows for these types of uses.


Overview of Personal Applications

Pedestrian Navigation

Pedestrian Navigation consists in the navigation of pedestrians in urban environments. Pedestrian Navigation often offers pedestrian specific maps and multimodal navigation that combines walking directions with all available modes of transportation and even routing in indoor environments[1].

Pedestrian Navigation requires more complex maps and algorithms to provide an adequate navigation experience than road navigation which is a simpler, much more predictable and contained environment.

Detailed information about Pedestrian Navigation can be found here.


Outdoor Navigation

Detailed information about Outdoor Navigation can be found here.


Social Networking

Detailed information about Social Networking can be found here.


Photography Geocoding

Detailed information about Photography Geocoding can be found here.


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