Thread: Canola Improvements Coming
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-07-31 , 01:35
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#27
Originally Posted by handful View Post
@milhouse: yes this is our approach. Once you setup a wifi it asks if you want to "attach" to a location pretty much like apple's location manager. Then it can "detect" where you are based on that. For the car, we plan to use the obd2 bluetooth signal =)

I think that this will not be in the next release, as we are going to work quite hard to make it work flawlessly. But the "infra" to do that is shaping up quite well, and that's the most important.
Handful - that sounds excellent, but can you confirm if the attachment (or association) of WiFi to a location is a feature of Canola or the "operating system" (ie. infra)?

Location awareness should be a centralised operating system feature allowing the development of new functionality in applications such as Canola or Power Management profiles at the OS level. If the location awareness can be extended to include GPS functionality (when available) then Maemo/Nokia will have a very poweful system for applications such as Canola to tap into.

However I would be concerned if location awareness is an exclusive feature within Canola as this would seem like a wasted oppurtunity to implement something with a much broader appeal.

I like the idea of using obd2 to detect when in the car! And it comes to mind that the absence of a WiFi connection (ignoring hot spots which I generally don't use) could be taken as a cue for travelling to/from work - although this would of course be "temporal location awareness": Monday-Friday morning and evening only!
Last edited by Milhouse; 2007-07-31 at 01:37.
 

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