GeoClue - State of the Map 2007

GeoClue Andrew Turner - ajturner@highearthorbit.com Henri Bergius - bergie@iki.ﬁ

open State of the Mobile LBS

What’s Changed

Open Mobile Devices

GeoData Standards

Community Understanding Thanks Google?

Neogeography

GeoStack

OpenSearch -Geo http://search.org?q={searchTerm} &lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}

OpenSearch-Geo http://maps.google.com/maps?near=43.3+-0.03 http://local.yahoo.com/?csz=43.3,-0.03 http://upcoming.org/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03 http://api.ﬂickr.com/services/photos_public.gne?bbox=-0.03,43.3, -0.04,43.4 http://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

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 • quot;I am in Helsinkiquot; • quot;Joe is in Parisquot; • quot;It's 4am where Mike is, you might be waking him up with this stupid message you are writing!quot; • quot;Looks like you are going to be in London when there is the rubber duck sale!quot; • quot;Where is the ﬁle I got from Steve while I was in Boston Summit last october??quot;

Mapnik-based vector navigation app?

Participate • #geoclue - irc.gnome.org • http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ GeoClue

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