Report on the Eighth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2018)

LocWeb 2018 continued the LocWeb workshop series at the intersection of location-based services and Web architecture and was held at The Web Conference, WWW 2018. It focused on Web-scale services and systems facilitating location-aware information access as well as on Spatial Social Behavior Analytics on the Web as part of social computing. The LocWeb 2018 workshop had contributions ranging from location data analysis over tourism and virtual reality up to societal engagement. This report briefly presents the theme, contributions, and discussions of the workshop.