Location Interoperability Forum (LIF) was founded by three mobile phone manufacturers - Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia - in October 2000 to achieve the goal of offering location-based services worldwide on wireless networks and terminals.

Open GIS Consortium, OGC’s, OpenLS Initiative brings together key industry players to build and consolidate the standards infrastructure for these interoperating location-based software services. The OpenLS mission is to specify standard interfaces and protocols which developers can use to integrate geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into location services and telecommunications infrastructure and to demonstrate these capabilities for a wide variety of applications for consumers, businesses and governments.

The Open Mobile Alliancemission is to grow the market for the entire mobile industry by removing the barriers to global user adoption and by ensuring seamless application interoperability while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.

MAGIC Services Initiativewas founded with the goal of defining and promoting open industry specification for delivering navigation, telematics, and related geographic information services across multiple networks, platforms and devices.