Positioning techniques, Electronic commerce "E-commerce" and Geographical
Information System "GIS" define the equilateral triangle bases of a recent technology
that is considered an improvement in the business fields named Location commerce
"L-commerce".
The positioning techniques such as the Global positioning systems (GPS) enables the
user to find their position anywhere on earth. At the same time, E-commerce involves
making business transactions via telecommunication networks, primarily the Internet.
While, the GIS technology can help to visualize this position, to locate the services and
to assist decision makers on critical, urgent, ubiquitous and persistent situations.
These three sides yield the triangle of Location commerce (L-Commerce) offering
many relevant services, based on where you or your mobile phone is located at any
particular moment. L-Commerce expands the traditional E-commerce into worlds of
wireless networks and positioning technologies. The wide spread adoption of wireless
and mobile networks and devices creates an opportunity not only to transact
applications that had been possible only from PC, but also to conduct new
applications online.
This paper illustrates the idea of yielding the Location commerce concept from the
three promising technologies of the future, Geographical Information Systems (GIS),
the Electronic commerce (E-commerce) and positioning techniques. Providing means
of improvements to the business approaches that will be changed to new applications
where L-commerce will be an alternative to the traditional commerce. The next phase
on wireless networks would see the development of location commerce, and all the
applications ranging from the combination of GIS and E-commerce. With
organizations wanting to reach more people with their information, data, and services
the need for serving and distributing data and analysis results is greater than ever,
generating a need for geographic information system (GIS) technology on the
handhelds devices.