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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Dear colleagues,<br>
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We are happy to announce that the LBS Research Agenda has been
published<br>
online as an open access paper in the Journal of LBS. This is
an outcome<br>
of the multi-phase collaborative initiative<br>
(<a href="https://lbs.icaci.org/research-agenda/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lbs.icaci.org/research-agenda/</a>),
started in May 2016. Thank you<br>
to all the participants during this process! You can find the
paper at<br>
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17489725.2018.1508763" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17489725.2018.1508763</a>.<br>
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We hope this research agenda helps to motivate further LBS
research and<br>
stimulate collective efforts. To bring together the broader
community to<br>
answer these open research questions, a series of activities<br>
(conferences, workshops, and special issues) will be organized
in the<br>
coming years. Particularly, we would like to draw your
attention to the<br>
following two platforms:<br>
<br>
- Journal of LBS (<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tlbs20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tlbs20</a>):
This is the<br>
flagship journal of the scientific field of LBS. Please
consider<br>
submitting your recent research to the journal.<br>
<br>
- International Conference series on LBS<br>
(<a href="https://lbs.icaci.org/lbs-conferences/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lbs.icaci.org/lbs-conferences/</a>):
The next LBS conference will<br>
be hosted by TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in November 2019. More
details<br>
will come.<br>
<br>
By working collaboratively within the LBS community and across
cognate<br>
communities, we can ensure a better future of our mobile
information<br>
society.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Haosheng Huang, Georg Gartner, Jukka Krisp, Martin Raubal, and
Nico van de Weghe<br>
On behalf of the ICA Commission on LBS and the Journal of LBS</span></font></p>
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International Cartographic Association
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Research Group Cartography
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation
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