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Book ReviewsCreating Location Services for the Wireless Web |
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Book: Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web
Written by: Johan Hjelm Johan Hjelm |
Publisher: Wiley
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5
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RFCs are more enjoyable.
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2 / 5
Everything is fine with its content. I just don't like its style. RFCs are more enjoyable to read than this book. The writer says that this chapter will give you something but you have to find it, no bullets, no balds, no italics, just a plain text. To sum up, I don't find it readable.
Again I don't say anything about its content. This book gives you idea (nothing more) about Location Services for Wireless Web, but you should be ready to read 400 page plain text. Some may like this kind of books. If you want to enjoy while reading please think twice before buying.
Excellent reading - truly comprehensive
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5 / 5
I really enjoyed reading this book. I provides an excellent overview of location sensitive technologies and services. I particularly liked Chapter 10 ("Pulling it all together"), which provides practical advice on how to build new applications. The chapter on privacy was also extremely useful. I highly recommend this book.
Comprehensive, covering everything
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5 / 5
This is the first book I have found that ties together positioning, geocoding, and the user interface. The author has done a tremendous job of being comprehensive, covering everything I could think about. The field varies from the arcane to the mundane, and there are a lot of threads to be tied together - and he manages to do so very well. He does say it is not a programmers cookbook, and I did not expect one. But he has done a guidebook to an industry that seems very fragmented - with this book, you get a good grip about what is fragmented and what is already standardized. The author really penetrates deep into the concepts, drilling down into position-service APIs, geocoding languages, and privacy aspects. Sometimes, he even manages to make the stuff funny, and it is readable all the time. There are a lot of tricky things here, and as a developer, you had better have a clue about which traps there are to avoid. So far, cost seems to be the biggest problem for deployment - GPS is too [costly], mobile phone networks do not offer this as a service (which they could, and this is very well covered in the book).
It is a five-star in my view.
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