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

2.
open
State of the Mobile LBS

3.
What’s Changed

4.
Open Mobile Devices

5.
GeoData Standards

6.
Community
Understanding
Thanks Google?

7.
Neogeography

8.
GeoStack

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

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}

11.
Location

12.
GPS

13.
GSM

14.
WiFi

15.
IP Address

16.
Proximity

17.
User Tracking

18.
But why is it so hard?

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.

20.
Architecture

21.
MaemoBlog

22.
MaemoMapper

23.
GeoRSS2POI

24.
MaemoSurveyor

25.
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;

26.
Mapnik-based vector
navigation app?

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