The LBS 2026 is scheduled 11-13 November 2026 in Nanjing. The cfp will come in due time.

At the ICA-ICC in Vancouver the LBS commission had its ICA – Commission on LBS business meeting 2025. Thanks to all the participants.

• International Symposium GeoAnalytics for Sustainable and Livable Cities, https://asiacarto.org/ica2025/
  Aug. 17th, 2025, Vancouver, Canada, Co-organized by
  ICA Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
  ICA Commission on Location-Based Services
  ICA Commission on Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies
• ICC2025 – Business Meeting Commission on Location-Based-Sevices; we will have a meeting; the proposed time, Tuesday, 19 August 2025 @ 12:05-1:20 PM (tbc)

The International Cartographic Association’s Scholarship recipients at LBS2025 are:

• Nuzhat T. Nawshin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
• Si Ying Yau, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

Congratulations for the travel grant recipients!

LBS2025 update

The best full paper award at LBS2025 went to Joseph Shingleton & Ana Basiri from University of Glasgow (UK) for their full paper on “Geospatial Data Quality in the Era of Generative AI: Can we Trust the Geographic Information Produced by Large Language Models?”.

The best short paper award at LBS2025 went to Martin Haamer¹, Mirosława Łukawska², Jacek Pawlak³, Age Poom¹, Anto Aasa¹ & Aruna Sivakumar³ from University of Tartu¹ (Estonia), Technische Universität Dresden² (Germany) and Imperial College London³ (UK) for their work in progress paper on “Comparative Modelling of Cycling Route Choice by Bikes and E-Bikes: The Case Study of Tartu, Estonia”.

Congratulations for the winners!

more info:

https://lbs2025.lbsconference.org/pages/awards.html

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (National Land Survey of Finland) and Aalto University are pleased to invite you to the 19th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2025), which will take place in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland on 7-9 May 2025. The conference is a joint effort of the ICA Commission on Location Based Services, the Commission on Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies, and the Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization.

Built on the success of previous conferences in this series, LBS 2025 is addressed to scholars and researchers, digital industry / market operators, and students of different backgrounds (scientific, engineering and humanistic) whose work is either focused on or relevant to location-based services (LBS). The conference will offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practices where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how LBS can and could be improved and on how it will influence both science and society.

More information regarding LBS 2025 can be found at lbs2025.lbsconference.org. We are looking forwards to your contributions and to meeting you!

The ICA LBS commission chairs met in Vienna on 22.03.024 – 24.03.2024. It also included the hand-over from the previous chair, Prof. Haosheng Huang, to the new chair, Prof. Jukka Krisp (University of Augsburg, Germany). We thank Prof. Huang for the many years of chairing the activities of this very successful commission. Vice-chairs of the ICA-LBS commission are Prof. Anto Aasa (University of Tartu, Estonia) and Prof. Weihua Dong (Beijing Normal University, China).

The LBS conference series started in 2002 in Vienna, Austria, initiated by Prof. Georg Gartner from TU Wien. Since 2015, it has become the annual conference of the ICA Commission on Location Based Services. In the past years, the LBS conferences travelled around the world – with venues in Hong Kong, Salzburg, Nottingham, Shanghai, Vienna, Augsburg, Zurich, Glasgow, and Munich.

In 2023, the LBS conference was hosted by Ghent University, Belgium, on November 20-22, 2023. Around 90 participants from all over the world gathered in the historical city center of Ghent. The conference was opened by the Conference Chairs Prof. Haosheng Huang and Prof. Nico Van de Weghe.

Opening session of the 18th International Conference on Location Based Services – LBS 2023 held in Ghent, Belgium

The conference featured five keynotes by Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz from University of Vienna, Bart Rosseau from Digitaal Vlaanderen, Prof. Wim Hardyns from Ghent University (UGent), Prof. Sofie Van Hoecke from UGent-imec, and Prof. Sidharta Gautama from UGent.

A total of 50 oral presentations have been given in 10 single-stream sessions over the two and half days. Another 4 showcases were presented all the conference. These oral presentations, showcases and posters provide a general picture of recent research activities related to the domain of LBS. Such activities emerged in the last years, especially concerning issues of GeoAI, outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environment, spatial modeling, personalization, context-awarenesss, cartographic communication, novel user interfaces, crowdsourcing, social media, big data analysis, usability and privacy.

Oral sessions of LBS 2023

Oral sessions of LBS 2023

Showcases at LBS 2023

Showcases at LBS 2023

The conference also featured a “Best Paper session” on the 3rd conference day.

• The best full paper award at LBS2023 went to Eva Nuhn, Kai Hamburger and Sabine Timpf from University of Augsburg, Germany for their full paper on “Mapping olfactory cues for wayfinding – A theoretical approach and an empirical study”.

• The winner of the best short paper award at LBS2023 is “Towards Personalized Pedestrian Route Recommendation Based on Implicit Visual Preference”, authored by Lin Che, Martin Raubal and Peter Kiefer from ETH Zurich.

With the co-sponsoring of ESRI BeLux and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, we were also happy to offer Travel Grants to support 7 young researchers to participate in the conference.

A selection of peer-reviewed full papers will be published in the Journal of Location Based Services. Accepted work in progress submissions are included in the conference online proceeding.

Besides the technical and scientific program, the conference provided several social networking opportunities, including an ice-breaker reception on the first day and a conference dinner in a traditional restaurant with famous Ghent cuisine on the 2nd day.

More details and photos regarding LBS 2023 can be found at https://lbs2023.lbsconference.org/.

With this post, we would like to provide some updates regarding LBS 2023 (https://lbs2023.lbsconference.org/), which will be held in Ghent, Belgium on 20-22 November 2023.

1) We have finished the peer-review processes. Finally, we accepted 6 full papers and 38 work-in-progress submissions for oral presentations. There will be also several interactive showcases. Several keynotes are being planned, and will announced by the end of September.

2) The conference registration is now open at https://lbs2023.lbsconference.org/registration/. The early-bird registration ends on October 15.

We also updated the conference website with some information like travel grants for young researchers.

We are looking forward to seeing you at LBS 2023 in Ghent.

Due to multiple requests and the holiday season, the deadline for work-in-progress submissions has been extended to September 1. We also welcome showcase submissions.

Accepted work-in-progress submissions will be published in the online proceedings of the conference (with a DOI), openly available on the conference website.

We are also pleased to announce two awards at LBS 2023: one Best paper award, and one Best work in progress award. Meanwhile, travel grants will be available for young researchers for applications. More details will come in early September.

For more details regarding LBS 2023, please refer to https://lbsconference.org/

Look forward to your submissions, as well as to seeing you at the conference.