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GeoClue talk given at State of the Map 2007
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GeoClueAndrew Turner - [email protected]
Henri Bergius - [email protected]
State of the Mobile LBSopen
What’s Changed
Open Mobile Devices
GeoData Standards
Community Understanding
Thanks Google?
Neogeography
GeoStack
OpenSearch
http://search.org?q={searchTerm}
&lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}
-Geo
OpenSearch-Geohttp://maps.google.com/maps?near=43.3+-0.03
http://local.yahoo.com/?csz=43.3,-0.03http://upcoming.org/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03
http://api.flickr.com/services/photos_public.gne?bbox=-0.03,43.3, -0.04,43.4http://mapufacture.com/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03
lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}&radius={geo:radius}
bbox={geo:box}
where={geo:locationString}
area={geo:polygon}
Location
GPS
GSM
WiFi
IP Address
Proximity
User Tracking
But why is it so hard?
GeoClue
Provide a system service that applications can use to become geo-aware. Make reading
and writing geographical information as simple and easy as time or date.
Architecture
MaemoBlog
MaemoMapper
GeoRSS2POI
MaemoSurveyor
More Examples
• "I am in Helsinki"
• "Joe is in Paris"
• "It's 4am where Mike is, you might be waking him up with this stupid message you are writing!"
• "Looks like you are going to be in London when there is the rubber duck sale!"
• "Where is the file I got from Steve while I was in Boston Summit last october??"
Mapnik-based vector navigation app?
Participate
• #geoclue - irc.gnome.org
• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue