Location Aggregation from Multiple Sources

With a growing trend toward a world where people, computers, vehicles, and other mobile objects are interconnected at all times, it is no surprise that tracking the location of these objects and performing computation on such location data are also attracting interest. The idea of location-based services has captured the imagination of application developers, wireless service providers, and content providers alike. For example, when the location of a given mobile object is known reliably, the provision of location-based information to that object is clearly beneficial and even profitable