terraVista Ltd. has been established as the vehicle to develop and market an innovative technical concept (terraVX) that will bring a new dimension to the delivery and management of location-based information services.  This emerging market is expected to grow very significantly over the next five to ten years, as the infrastructure required to support such services develops and matures and devices capable of delivering them become more pervasive.

The fundamental concept of location-based information is not new - travellers have throughout history sought information about the landscape and features surrounding them.  The occurrence and scope of such queries tends to be defined and delimited by an ever-changing horizon; the focus is on what is visible from an observer’s present location.  The information sources most likely to be used at present in this context include topographic maps, published travel guides and other (often locally produced) reference material. However, innovations such as in-car navigation systems, WAP enabled mobile devices, and handheld GPS receivers, etc. are now beginning to offer alternative delivery channels for reference material.

These developments have led to the emergence of a market sector now broadly described as “Location Based Services” (LBS).  These will increasingly depend on the integration of wireless communications with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), using a digital topographic map as a frame of reference together with a database dynamically providing relevant details.  Users will include, for example, emergency services, travellers requiring navigation information or mobile users searching for the nearest service provider of a specified type.

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