20th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2026), which will take place in Nanjing, China on 11-13 November 2026

Call for papers:

Call for papers

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

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).