Employment and Location Based Services using GIS

We present here our work on developing CLC, which is a framework for building of a dynamic user community that shares public interest information & knowledge, which is accessible through always-on context aware services (location-based included). We introduce here unde.ro, a geo-spatial search and tracking environment that has been developed to support CLC, and gipix-102B, a GIS-based module for location-based services. CLC aims to be a framework around a user-centred digital library that stores regional information and knowledge and that boosts a self- developing community of transnational users around it. The content will be accessible through always-on contextual services. The users can get it or enhance it, according to their location: at home or office by using a computer, on road with a specific GIS-based device in the car, or off-line, off-road via mobile phone. The content will include: public interest information (drugstores, hospitals, general stores, gas stations, entertainment places, restaurants, travel and accommodation, weather, routes etc.), historical/touristic/cultural information and knowledge, users’ personal "war stories"(tracks, touristic tours, impressions, photos, short videos and so on), and users' additions, comments or updates. We develop (open source) the CLC system for our country of origin and will provide an easy-to-use how-to recipe to clone it for other regions.