Editing Location-based service (section)

=== Self-reported positioning ===
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A low cost alternative to using location technology to track the player, is to not track at all. This has been referred to as "self-reported positioning". It was used in the [[mixed reality game]] called [[Uncle Roy All Around You]] in 2003 and considered for use in the [[Augmented reality]] games in 2006.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Broll | first1 = W. | last2 = Ohlenburg | first2 = J. | last3 = Lindt | first3 = I. | last4 = Herbst | first4 = I. | last5 = Braun | first5 = A. K. | doi = 10.1145/1230040.1230097 | chapter = Meeting technology challenges of pervasive augmented reality games | title = Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games - NetGames '06 | page = 28 | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-1595935892 | s2cid = 15130951 }}</ref> Instead of tracking technologies, players were given a map which they could pan around and subsequently mark their location upon.<ref name="Flintham2003-URAY"/><ref name="Benford2004-Error"/> With the rise of location-based networking, this is more commonly known as a user "[[Check-in#Social network|check-in]]".