Welcome to LBS 2025#

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (National Land Survey of Finland) and Aalto University are pleased to invite you to the 19th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2025), which will take place in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland on 7-9 May 2025. The conference is a joint effort of the ICA Commission on Location Based Services, the Commission on Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies, and the Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization.

Latest#

19.5.2025 Photo gallery published! See the highlights of the conference from Photo Gallery.
09.5.2025 LBS2025 conference is now wrapped! Thank you to all the participants who made the event a success!
09.5.2025 Best full paper, best short paper and ICA Scholarship selected! See the recipients under Best paper awards.
07.5.2025 Successful start of the 19th International Conference on Location Based Services!
15.3.2025 Two side events organized in conjunction with the LBS 2025 conference
15.3.2025 Travel grants available to young researchers
11.3.2025 Conference registration is now open!
1.3.2025 Call for Papers is now closed

Keynote speakers#

We are happy to announce that Prof. Ana Basiri from University of Glasgow (UK), Prof. Grant McKenzie from McGill University (Canada), Prof. Heidi Kuusniemi from University of Vaasa (Finland), and Antti Vuorela from Helsinki Region Transport (HSL) are our confirmed keynote speakers at LBS 2025.

Prof. Anahid Basiri,
University of Glasgow