Hi, Lately we are doing quite a bit of mapping. It's a hip field of work at the moment, and we having a lot of fun doing it. We shared some of the fun on the last LUG meeting when we showed how we can build pothole.ug in 20 minutes.
When building geo-aware applications there is 2 ways to find out where someone is. First is to use a GPS, for which phones or other devices need to have extra hardware onboard, or to use people's IP address. Just curious, but are there any people in Uganda that can do the following test (using firefox) and see if their location is in any way accurate: http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/geolocation.php I end up on Mackay Rd, which is in Kampala (that is good) but its closer to my ISP, than it is to where I really am. Being able to use this kind of technology is not just hip, or great fun, but also allows for example to run reports of your website, based on location (how many people from the west/east/central visit my website. Or offer services/redirects based on where people are (like advertisements). (ah, hip is hip as in for example http://foursquare.com/ which is a game where you can 'claim' a certain real-life location as your own, if you visit it often enough and 'checkin' from it. It works worldwide, there are some people playing it in Kampala too) (And if you want to know how the page in firefox works, its explained here: http://davidwalsh.name/geolocation-api ) -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
