geolocation
地理定位,地域定位,地理位置,地理位置
Definitions
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Digital Technology.
- : the process of determining the location of an electronic device, as a computer, cell phone, satellite, etc.
- : the actual location as determined by this process: The website uses the IP address of your device to estimate your geolocation.
Examples
The artist founded a Norfolk data-mining company that collaborated with California’s Niantic on a mobile game, “Ingress,” whose geolocation technology led to the Pokemon-hunting app.
It’s this sort of geolocation technology that is used to help your car company or food delivery service locate you, and how the map app on your phone gives you directions.
The NBA used high-tech tools like technology from Kinexon, a real-time geolocation technology company, that tracks athletes’ performance to monitor social distancing.
The second is to look at mobility trends, such as geolocation or credit card data, to see if people are actually behaving the way they say they are.
So a number of other studies have tried to figure out what people were actually doing by using geolocation data to follow people’s movements.
The social networking behemoth is getting into the geolocation game.