Urivan Saaib wrote: > This sounds pretty cool. I've always thinking on a service that could let > anyone provide means to upload their position (without being tied to any > personal records) and be able to see through the time the evolution of the > flows of population (dynamic of fluids).
That would be a possible extension, if data is to be passed through some central server (which is probably necessary, since telcos usually don't allow direct IP traffic between mobile terminals). However, I think the best approach to tackle all this is to go incrementally. A standalone trail application should already be useful. Next, one could add simple waypoints. A camera would actually be kinda useful ;-) Trails of multiple users, shared in real time, would be the "killer application". I don't think anyone is doing that at the moment. A typical scenario would be to meet someone in a city both don't know. Street names aren't very useful, but knowing roughly where the other person is at the moment, would be. Directing a taxi to the other person's location should be fun, though ;-) - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
