Abstract: In order to provide a method for the automated detection of a local position, which enables a largely automated detection of the use of fee-based services and can be used as base for automated billings, a method is provided for the automated detection of a local position of a person equipped with suitable terminals and sensors, wherein at respectively comparable times geographic data as well as at least one type of acceleration information and/or surrounding field information is collected which will then be evaluated by means of memorized reference data of the geographical place, the acceleration and the surrounding field.