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

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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

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