The Location Based Services (LBS) industry enables the sending of information to users based on their location. Locating people, places, and assets has always been an important endeavor. With the convergence of wireless communications and increasingly portable devices there is a growing market potential to be exploited. Location-based services (LBS) maps add value by exploiting knowledge of a user's current.This combines GIS applications with easy to use mobile devices to provide information wherever and whenever it is needed.The GIS technology behind these services will empower an increasingly diverse range of applications,putting even more valuable information in the hands of mobile users e.g a location- based service might allow the subscriber to find the nearest business of a certain type, such as a restaurant,bank,travle agent etc.