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Geolocation-Infographic Ifg Eng 0916

Geolocation systems determine the physical or virtual location of an object using different types of data. Active and passive data collection methods are used and cross-referenced to provide accurate location results. The advent of GPS, WiFi, wireless networks, and IP location identification spawned applications using geolocation benefits. Geolocation data is generally used for positioning, searching by location, and embedding location metadata.

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Geolocation-Infographic Ifg Eng 0916

Geolocation systems determine the physical or virtual location of an object using different types of data. Active and passive data collection methods are used and cross-referenced to provide accurate location results. The advent of GPS, WiFi, wireless networks, and IP location identification spawned applications using geolocation benefits. Geolocation data is generally used for positioning, searching by location, and embedding location metadata.

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Where is Main Street?

What Is Geolocation I forget—where was this picture


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AND HOW DOES IT WORK? taken and when?


A geolocation system is an information technology
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solution that ascertains the location of an object in a
physical (geo-spatial) or virtual (Internet) environment.
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Two different types of data may be collected—active user/
do you approve this transaction?
device-based information and passive server-based lookup/
data correlation—and then cross-referenced against each Delivered
other to create the most accurate geolocation result.
Do any local restaurants have
any special offers?

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ASSISTED
GPS

GPS 3G/4G
WIFI WIRELESS
POSITIONING

IP LOCATION/ MOBILE
ISP NETWORKS APPLICATIONS

The advent of GPS, WiFi, wireless mobile networks and 1 Geo-Referencing or Positioning: finding physical
IP location identification techniques has spawned a wide location of object or person relative to a map
range of derivative technology applications driven by the Geo-Coding: searching available types of objects and
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benefits of geolocation. Geolocation data is generally used services listed by location
for three purposes:
3 Geo-Tagging: embedding geographic data into an
object’s metadata for future reference

For more information from ISACA on geolocation, and the related privacy and security issues affecting
practitioners in the industry, see www.isaca.org/geolocation.

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