On 2/8/07, Allan Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been many comments here and elsewhere over many months
> about the relative [lack of] suitability of other target devices
> for mobile geo hacking like treos, blackberrys, ipaqs, axims,
> crippled blue tooth connected phones, opaque screened tablets, and
> too heavy laptops. It's nice to see a cool device on the horizon
> that might be relatively easy to use and to develop net served
> mobile geo services, and that the better of these services stand a
> chance of being used by more than a handful of a developers best
> friends.
For locative hackability, the N770 and N800 (although I don't yet
have an N800) are pretty decent.
As much as I personally want an iPhone - I agree with Alan that there
are currently available mobile devices that have chosen an open-route
and make great mobile geo-devices. Instead of bashing our heads and
efforts trying to open a closed platform we should spend our efforts
and prototyping on devices that allow and embrace this type of
hacking.
Nokia actively supports geo-development on the N770 and N800.
GPS Frameworks built-in:
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToUseGPSFrameworkInOS2007
http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_connectivity_guide_bora.html#GPS
Plazes client:
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemoplazer/
And the FIC Neo1973/OpenMoKo has AGPS and will provide API's (or let
devs make APIs) for using this information.
And Opera was working, at some point, on their 'Opera Platform' which
was their browser with device hooks available via Javascript. Good
for, say, grabbing GSM location information or BT GPS in web
applications.
Any/all these possible solutions would make good platforms to
demonstrate GeoJSON/JDIL.
Andrew
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