GeoClue talk given at State of the Map 2007

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