GeoClue - State of the Map 2007

Slide 1: GeoClue Andrew Turner - ajturner@highearthorbit.com Henri Bergius - bergie@iki.fi

Slide 2: open State of the Mobile LBS

Slide 3: What’s Changed

Slide 4: Open Mobile Devices

Slide 5: GeoData Standards

Slide 6: Community Understanding Thanks Google?

Slide 7: Neogeography

Slide 8: GeoStack

Slide 9: OpenSearch -Geo http://search.org?q={searchTerm} &lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}

Slide 10: 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}

Slide 11: Location

Slide 12: GPS

Slide 13: GSM

Slide 14: WiFi

Slide 15: IP Address

Slide 16: Proximity

Slide 17: User Tracking

Slide 18: But why is it so hard?

Slide 19: 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.

Slide 20: Architecture

Slide 21: MaemoBlog

Slide 22: MaemoMapper

Slide 23: GeoRSS2POI

Slide 24: MaemoSurveyor

Slide 25: 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??\"

Slide 26: Mapnik-based vector navigation app?

Slide 27: Participate • #geoclue - irc.gnome.org • http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ GeoClue