Location-aware desktop

The location-aware desktop geo-information framework for mobile Linux desktops

Location matters Your desktop or mobile knows who you are, what time it is, who you know and what you're doing. But it doesn't know where it is.

Magic Ink http://worrydream.com/MagicInk

Henri Bergius http://bergie.iki.fi

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin http://www.pierlux.com

Mobile devices

GeoClue A D-BUS service that applications can use to become geo-aware. Makes reading and writing geographical information as simple and easy as time or date.

GeoClue as simple and easy as time or date. ...regardless of whether you deal with coordinates or civic location

GeoClue Architecture Geoclue is D-Bus API definitions - but also implementations Interfaces for "current location" Position Address Velocity Interfaces for conversion Geocode (address to position) ReverseGeocode (position to address)

GeoClue Properties

Location comes in many flavors

IP address

Proximity

User tracking

...and that is not all

N 28° 13'' 01' W 15° 44'' 50'

Auditorio Alfredo Kraus Avda. Príncipe de Asturias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Telepathy http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ Instant messaging D-Bus API Location-sharing through XMPP: Where are my friends?

libchamplain http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain A Clutter (and Gtk+) map widget applications can use to display location information to users. Makes visualising and selecting a location easier.

Marble http://edu.kde.org/marble/ A Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth and a light weight generic geographical map component for use in your own Qt 4.x / C+ + application.

OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Open content map project providing high- quality vector and bitmap map data

OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Open content map project providing high- quality vector and bitmap map data ...not only for cars, but also bicycles, pedestrians, public transportation, ...

OSM2Go Map editor for Maemo devices

Location is here Examples of the State of the Art

Location as metadata Geotagging made easy

EOG Map plugin: where was this picture taken?

F-Spot plugin: where were these pictures taken?

Getting Things GNOME http://gtg.fritalk.com/ TODO items connected to location as a Google Summer of Code 2009

Context for my friends Instant messaging and microblogging can be used for sharing location

Empathy: Where are my friends? Coming in next GNOME

Context for me Location awareness can help make apps smarter

GNOME panel clock

Gnome panel clock

Location-aware weather

Browser geolocation API

GeoClue http://geoclue.freedesktop.org Marble http://edu.kde.org/marble/ libchamplain http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain

Location-aware desktop

by Henri Bergius on Jul 08, 2009

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

1 Embed 7

Statistics

Location-aware desktop — Presentation Transcript