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2007-11-05
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Originally Posted by benny1967
Location awareness isnt only a buzzword. Its not "hot" because the N810 features a GPS chip now. People want it! I notice it when I brows my blogs statistics: I wrote an article on how to get your coordinates based on your address and use it for geourl etc. - this was 2 years ago and nobody cared.
Now, people search for this topic like mad and made this my most popular post since 2003 (!). "latitude/longitude" is the hottest thing since webcams.
Whatever app you're working on - try to think of how you could geo-info with it. People will love it!
I wrote some homegrown shell scripts to pull my GPS info on the 770 and send it via http to my cable modem. Then my website would place maps and information based on the update from the 770.
It worked great, I used laptops before I had my 770, but I did not keep updating it with each IT os release, so I need to do some more scripting.
I would really to see some sort of way to broadcast my position to other IT users, perhaps using maemo-mapper to find them on a map.
Last edited by penguinbait; 2007-11-05 at 23:26.
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2007-11-05
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Originally Posted by penguinbait
The natural way would be via the built-in IM client: show them that you're online and where you are. (A map could be part of an extended UI.)
I would really to see some sort of way to broadcast my position to other IT users, perhaps using maemo-mapper to find them on a map.
There's an extention to the Jabber Protocol called JEP-0080: User Geolocation to do exactly this. As a technology I think its more robust than a script talking to my router
- and it integrates better with existing standards than OpenMokos thumbtribes.I started a thread about JEP-0080 a whilke ago, but I'm pessimistic… dont think Nokias official client will move in this direction.
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2007-11-05
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Look to pervasive computing for inspiration. I wish the Nxxx had at least one accelerometer.
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2007-11-05
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I fully agree with this. I think location awareness is really pretty cool, lots of possibilities.
I imagine the way to go with this is to use Geoclue as the library/interface (http://maemo.org/community/wiki/geoclue/) as then one doesn't necessarily need a GPS and can use different backends to provide location info (which means it will be applicable to all tablet users).
I imagine the way to go with this is to use Geoclue as the library/interface (http://maemo.org/community/wiki/geoclue/) as then one doesn't necessarily need a GPS and can use different backends to provide location info (which means it will be applicable to all tablet users).
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2007-11-09
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Heh. I guess I need to learn more about d-bus....
So I think that there are 4 parameters to take into account: physical location, the components of velocity (speed and direction,) and time. This says not only where you are, but where you're going and when you might get there.
I wonder if something like cron would be useful. Offhand I'm not immediately coming up with anything, but I'm guessing someone would find a use for it.
So I think that there are 4 parameters to take into account: physical location, the components of velocity (speed and direction,) and time. This says not only where you are, but where you're going and when you might get there.
I wonder if something like cron would be useful. Offhand I'm not immediately coming up with anything, but I'm guessing someone would find a use for it.
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2007-11-09
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Cron is suboptimal, you want alarm, which is device-state aware:
http://maemo.org/development/documen...interface.html
I'm still pre-alphaing my location-sensitive app. Apparently Nokia liked it.
http://maemo.org/development/documen...interface.html
I'm still pre-alphaing my location-sensitive app. Apparently Nokia liked it.
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2007-11-10
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I did not mean cron exactly, but something where you could launch programs/scripts based on location.
What app is this?
What app is this?
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2007-11-11
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The app that I'm working on will support the creation of location-based profiles. This will include, but not be limited to, launching apps.
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2007-11-11
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Originally Posted by sarahn
Well, almost the one I made the application for
I did not mean cron exactly, but something where you could launch programs/scripts based on location.
What app is this?
As stated on another thead we're going to start working on it.
Still need to make things clear in our mind and come up with a robust idea of functionalities.
Now, people search for this topic like mad and made this my most popular post since 2003 (!). "latitude/longitude" is the hottest thing since webcams.
Whatever app you're working on - try to think of how you could geo-info with it. People will love it!