On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Holger Freyther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jussi Kukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > By the way, here's the Quote of The Day from Planet Openmoko: Zecke > > talks about what they are planning: > > "This application is combining GPS, GeoClue, Jabber, your Journal with > > each other and providing a bling-bling interface using EFL. When > > walking around in a foreign city you can see where you friends are, > > were, where they haven taken their cool pictures that you have seen > > on flickr, get routing with OpenStreetmap to find your way, see > > people with the same interests as you, take a city tour people like > > you have enjoyed, let your Freerunner guide you through the city, go > > sight-seeing or just chat with your relatives back home (and > > certainly be able to control your privacy). I hope we will have some > > more videos up in the next couple of weeks." > > http://zecke.blogspot.com/2008/03/qtwebkit-illume-and-diversity.html > > > > A bit of hype, I suppose (e.g. openstreetmap routing sounds like a pipe > > dream at moment), but interesting... > > > > Hey, > thanks for leaving a comment in the blog. Yes, it is certainly a bit of hype and > some of the goals are far reached. On the other hand some of us spent some > amount of time thinking about the usecases and sat down and wrote code (not me > though) and the code was moved to the public and we will continue to develop it > there. So understand the blog as my excitment on GeoClue and Diversity and what > you can do with it. >
Actually - not really that much of a pipe-dream. We do just about this very thing with Mapufacture. So you can build a map with your various sources: friends locations from Plazes, Flickr photos, local news, wikipedia guides - and then geolocate that from GeoClue. Right now I download the GPX to MaemoMapper so they all show up as POI's. _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
