With the impact of the recent advances in Electronics, Communication, and Information technologies on Geomatics technologies, the Location Intelligence will become paramount to any significant activity in daily life. In near future, it is expected that the Location Based Services (LBS) will have similar influence on common man as seen through the use of Internet during recent past.

While the technologies will drive the LBS, they will remain totally hidden from the common man. By spearheading the telecommunication using wireless and broadband, the Government of India has provided the necessary platform to facilitate the delivery of LBS. Similar initiatives are expected from the Government of India on development of a framework for publishing the location information on the Web.

Following the success and popularization of GPS from US, serious efforts are being put to make GLONASS fully operational by Russia and Galileo by EU in near future. Many Governments are augmenting GNSS with systems such as WAAS, EGNOS, and GAGAN etc. These will supplement the use of positioning technologies (GNSS) for many more applications including aviation and asset management in remote areas.

Electronics technologies including embedded systems, FPGA, MEMS and others have complemented GPS receivers to be appropriate and affordable. The launch of Spatial along with Oracle 10g has provided the use of spatial data over Internet/ Intranet in a secured and seamless manner within enterprise wide environment. The accuracy and standards have been the other concerns which are being addressed by OGC through community participation. With the availability of wide ranging applications in the battlefield, even the Military is targeting to use COTS equipments/ SW and IP based technologies for communication in Tactical Battle Area (TBA).

ASL has pioneered the development of GPS receivers in India and has supplied few thousands receivers to both Military and Civilian organizations. The paper shares the experience of development of framework for implementation of LBS using recent advances in technologies at ASL.