Guilhem Bonnefille <[email protected]> writes: > 2010/5/8 Joshua Judson Rosen <[email protected]>: > > > > Guilhem Bonnefille <[email protected]> writes: > > > Do you evaluated the telepathy framework? It already implement > > > geolocation of friends over XMPP. > > > http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > > > > There hasn't been any discussion about the possibility of using > > Telepathy yet--I was not aware that it already had support for > > doing Geolocation over XMPP; that's exactly the sort of thing > > that I like to hear, though :) > > Did you read the following posts (in chronological order): > http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/01/22/empathy-where-are-you/en/ > http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/06/15/geolocation-in-empathy-now-real/en/
Yes, I did. > > Do you have any experience with these facilities? > > Not really. But I will investigate on this direction. Furthermore, I > don't know yet what are the services proposed by tangoGPS around > "friends". Currently, my question is: is this service really useful > compared to the service already proposed by empathy? Should we > maintain such service in foxtrotGPS or should we remove it and focus > foxtrotGPS on other direction? No, I'm pretty certain that we should keep it--for various reasons. For one, people do use it--if you turn it on, you can see quite a number of users posting positions and messages; they deserve something better than the system that's in place right now. Asking if they should just go use Empathy instead is sort-of like asking if Empathy users who want to see a map should just go use foxtrotGPS; obviously, there's a certain overlap in functionality, but the roles are different enough that it makes sense for both of them to continue--someone using foxtrotGPS who wants `a GPS that can show where other people are and even send them a message' isn't going to be satisfied using Empathy, and someone using Empathy who wants `an IM client that can show where people are' probably isn't going to be satisfied replaying Empathy with FoxtrotGPS. The bigger reason is that, as per <http://www.foxtrotgps.org/roadmap.html>, there will be a lot of GPS-, GIS-, and navigation-related features that become possible when we have a generalised system for supporting arbitrary sets of moving targets and communicating information about them between instances--tracking `friends' is just one possibility. It'll also open up the possibility of doing things like `live POIs', storm-tracking, notices of road-closings and emergency-services activity, commercial dispatch, or even real-time traffic-/congestion-monitoring. Most of that those things are out in the distance (some of them further than others), but it all starts here. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ This message is sent to you from [email protected] mailing list. Visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps to manage your subscription For more information, check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS
