We should also consider integration with Fireagle from Yahoo - so that
laconica sites don't become a silo too.
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
Brightkite already do fireeagle integration too.
- Mike
Josh Perfetto wrote:
> Glad to see there's some interest in this idea. I'm seeing that the
> lack of this functionality in Twitter is creating an environment where
> we have siloed location-aware Twitter clients and I'd like to work on a
> more open solution.
>
> Here's some more thoughts on this:
>
> 1. I think we need support for both user-provided (manually) location
> data, and automatically provided data (via GPS etc.). Manually provided
> data may be of the form City, Administrative Area, Country or something
> like that, while automatically provided data would be in lat/long. I
> think it's also necessary to keep this data separate, as
> manually-provided data may be inaccurate in a great deal of cases (i.e.
> a notebook-based Twitter client where the user is mobile but is not good
> about updating their current location). There may be applications that
> depend on accurate information to provide utility, and may therefore
> want to filter out inaccurate information. There may be other
> solutions, but I think that it's important to avoid a situation where
> location information gets too polluted with inaccurate information as
> this may seriously degrade some location-based applications.
>
> Another way to approach this would be timestamping the last location
> update in the profile current location. GPS-based devices may update
> this information frequently and thus implicitly
>
> -Josh
>
> Evan Prodromou wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:21 -0700, Josh Perfetto wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering whether there'd be any interest in attaching geocoded
>>> locations of some sort to notices? Since locations can change
>>> frequently for mobile users, handling this via the profile doesn't
>>> really work out.
>>>
>>>
>> A couple of thoughts about this:
>>
>> 1) YES. I think some encoding of geo stuff into the feeds, XMPP
>> output, and other places is a good idea.
>> 2) I'd like to expand the profile a bit beyond the bare essentials
>> that Twitter has. In particular, I'd like to add a profile field for
>> /hometown/ as well as /current location/. I think that'd make it
>> easier to update location.
>>
>> -Evan
>>
>>
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