location awareness in meego
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Location awareness in MeeGo
...or, where am I?
bergie
“Build a CMS, no forms allowed”
GeoClue
“A DBus service that applications can use to become location aware. Makes reading and writing geographical information as simple and easy as time or date.”
GeoClue
Magic Ink
A person determines her surroundings through the five human senses. Software doesn’t operate in a vacuum, either; through connections to hardware and other software, it can sense much about the user’s situation.
http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
Magic Ink
...the most interesting spatial landmark is usually “here.” Obviously, a software roadmap needs to know the user’s location, but so does the bus schedule, as well as business listings, transportation planners, travel guides, and much other information software.
http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
GeoClue today
Ubuntu Natty
GNOME 3
MeeGo
Qt Mobility
This stuff is easy
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Buscatcher: Never miss a tram!
Tablet of Adventure
MeeGo: Share your location
Empathy: where are my friends?
Empathy: where are my friends?
eog: Your photos, mapped
GTG: Location-aware TODOs
Zeitgeist: what files did I work with while in Hamburg?
http://geoclue.freedesktop.org
http://bergie.iki.fi@bergie