Re: [Orgmode] Does Org-mode need to be position aware?
Hi Thorsten, that's a great idea! Torsten Wagner torsten.wag...@gmail.com writes: Dear All, I recently bought a Android-based phone and was pleased to see the mobileorg version for Android. As you all may know people tend away from static computer places and we have mobileorg and some of us even run emacs and org-mode natively on smartphones and other gadgets. More and more of this devices come with a build-in GPS or at least they get can get the current location by tracking the mobile phone towers. Playing around with Android for a few days, I saw many applications which make use of the fact that the location is known to them. E.g. they show restaurants, shops, or doctors praxis close to you. I start wondering whether org-mode should get aware of my location and whether people might be interested to add a location tag to org-mode tasks. In a similar way as we add status, priorities, dates, tags, etc. It might be interesting to add a location. A special agenda search could list only those entries associated with my current location (or within a given circle). Since GPS coordinates are somehow ugly and human unreadable, I thought it should be possible to mask them similar to links. E.g., like [[gps://35.71083783530009,139.8175048828125][Somewhere in Japan +3km]]. Obviously, the first part has to be generated by read out the GPS location, the second part is a human readable description and a given radius. Closing this link would end up in Somewhere in Japan +3km. A C-a l could compile an agenda list only showing those entries which intersect with my current location. `C-a' is bound to `beginning-of-line'. `C-c a l' is still free. But wouldn't a property more suitable for the agenda? * TODO Something in Japan :PROPERTIES: :COORDS: gps://35.71083783530009,139.8175048828125 :END: The `+3km' could be a default setting (and could be supplied as a filter, just like tags). (Somehow I see the `org address book' discussion coming up again. Emacs needs an address book we all use. Something that's delivered with Emacs.) Links could point to map.google.com. I'd like to use those links to store tracks in Org-files as well. HTML-Export could support OSM or Google-Maps to show the tracks. We also could produce SVGs or PNGs from the data. Obviously, it requires to read in GPS data, which might be tricky to do for all those different devices. Furthermore, it might need emacs-lisp code as well as some external program to read-out the position of the GPS module. On Linux, BSD and MAC OS X there is `gpsd'. I don't know how useful it is --- I don't own a GPS yet. http://gpsd.berlios.de/ states: gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple location-aware client applications (such as navigational and wardriving software) can share access to receivers without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes. Is there something like it for other systems? Windows? I think Cell phone systems should have something ... But I guess the emacs-lisp gurus here might know this much better then I do. Another issue comes to my mind for mobileorg users. As far as I know, mobileorg only fetches agenda views from a server but does not generate them. However, this would be necessary to create this kind of location aware agendas. Would be nice to hear other opinions. Makes this sens? Should it be part of mobileorg, or rather a independent package? I'd make it an independent package. Some laptops come with a built in GPS these days. And your desktop might know his GEO location as well. We might have a variable `gps-home-coords' which is nice to have on cell phones as well (would be great to have several homes for some people - e.g. commuters). Unfortunately I don't own a GPS yet. But I'm very interested in this one and surely will contribute. Best wishes Sebastian ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Does Org-mode need to be position aware?
I'll second the great idea! This is something that my archaeological fieldworkers would love to have. A list of TODO items for various archaeological sites (with coordinate locations) could be prioritized by Org-mode using proximity to current position. They'd love the idea they are saving steps. All the best, Tom On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:06 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote: Hi Thorsten, that's a great idea! Torsten Wagner torsten.wag...@gmail.com writes: Dear All, I recently bought a Android-based phone and was pleased to see the mobileorg version for Android. As you all may know people tend away from static computer places and we have mobileorg and some of us even run emacs and org-mode natively on smartphones and other gadgets. More and more of this devices come with a build-in GPS or at least they get can get the current location by tracking the mobile phone towers. Playing around with Android for a few days, I saw many applications which make use of the fact that the location is known to them. E.g. they show restaurants, shops, or doctors praxis close to you. I start wondering whether org-mode should get aware of my location and whether people might be interested to add a location tag to org- mode tasks. In a similar way as we add status, priorities, dates, tags, etc. It might be interesting to add a location. A special agenda search could list only those entries associated with my current location (or within a given circle). Since GPS coordinates are somehow ugly and human unreadable, I thought it should be possible to mask them similar to links. E.g., like [[gps://35.71083783530009,139.8175048828125][Somewhere in Japan +3km]]. Obviously, the first part has to be generated by read out the GPS location, the second part is a human readable description and a given radius. Closing this link would end up in Somewhere in Japan +3km. A C-a l could compile an agenda list only showing those entries which intersect with my current location. `C-a' is bound to `beginning-of-line'. `C-c a l' is still free. But wouldn't a property more suitable for the agenda? * TODO Something in Japan :PROPERTIES: :COORDS: gps://35.71083783530009,139.8175048828125 :END: The `+3km' could be a default setting (and could be supplied as a filter, just like tags). (Somehow I see the `org address book' discussion coming up again. Emacs needs an address book we all use. Something that's delivered with Emacs.) Links could point to map.google.com. I'd like to use those links to store tracks in Org-files as well. HTML-Export could support OSM or Google-Maps to show the tracks. We also could produce SVGs or PNGs from the data. Obviously, it requires to read in GPS data, which might be tricky to do for all those different devices. Furthermore, it might need emacs- lisp code as well as some external program to read-out the position of the GPS module. On Linux, BSD and MAC OS X there is `gpsd'. I don't know how useful it is --- I don't own a GPS yet. http://gpsd.berlios.de/ states: gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple location-aware client applications (such as navigational and wardriving software) can share access to receivers without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes. Is there something like it for other systems? Windows? I think Cell phone systems should have something ... But I guess the emacs-lisp gurus here might know this much better then I do. Another issue comes to my mind for mobileorg users. As far as I know, mobileorg only fetches agenda views from a server but does not generate them. However, this would be necessary to create this kind of location aware agendas. Would be nice to hear other opinions. Makes this sens? Should it be part of mobileorg, or rather a independent package? I'd make it an independent package. Some laptops come with a built in GPS these days. And your desktop might know his GEO location as well. We might have a variable `gps-home-coords' which is nice to have on cell phones as well (would be great to have several homes for some people - e.g. commuters). Unfortunately I don't own a GPS yet. But I'm very interested in this one and surely will contribute. Best wishes Sebastian ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
Re: [Orgmode] Does Org-mode need to be position aware?
Sebastian Rose sebastian_r...@gmx.de writes: On Linux, BSD and MAC OS X there is `gpsd'. I don't know how useful it is --- I don't own a GPS yet. http://gpsd.berlios.de/ states: gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple location-aware client applications (such as navigational and wardriving software) can share access to receivers without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes. Is there something like it for other systems? Windows? I think Cell phone systems should have something ... (I am one of the maintainers of gpsd.) gpsd works well; what it does is get data from almost any gps receiver -- in that receiver's format -- and make it available in a standard format (now JSON based) with a C and python library available. Dealing with gpsd from emacs should be pretty easy. I think people have run gpsd on windows, but I don't use windows so I don't pay attention to that. There is also geoclue: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue which is intended to integrate multiple location providers (including gpsd) so that programs that want location can get it without worrying about gps vs manual config vs wifi database vs geoip. But I guess the emacs-lisp gurus here might know this much better then I do. Another issue comes to my mind for mobileorg users. As far as I know, mobileorg only fetches agenda views from a server but does not generate them. However, this would be necessary to create this kind of location aware agendas. Would be nice to hear other opinions. Makes this sens? Should it be part of mobileorg, or rather a independent package? Various cellphones have location support. This is more or less like geoclue but proprietary per platofrm (e.g.s apple's Core Location using wifi, cell towers, gps as available). I'd make it an independent package. Some laptops come with a built in GPS these days. And your desktop might know his GEO location as well. Architecturally, both org-on-real-computers and mobileorg should have a way to hook up to a location provider. The hard part is that lat/lon is really not what people want to think about. And, location services not using GPS will return locations that are only sort of near the right answer. So I'd suggest having the user define a set of locations as a sequence of tuples of name, latlon and maybe radius. This could be a GPX file (standard interchange for GPS waypoints) perhaps plus radius. Then, org could find the appropriate named point, and use that for location, and most matching could be in terms of point names. This way one could have tags for contexts, and reduce the gps use to just autoselecting tags. I think this might be the least mysterious and error prone. I edit org files on a computer that stays in one place, from many places. So I'd definitely need to say '(org-set-location office)' and not rely on automatic. pgpusUyee7Lmz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Does Org-mode need to be position aware?
Dear All, I recently bought a Android-based phone and was pleased to see the mobileorg version for Android. As you all may know people tend away from static computer places and we have mobileorg and some of us even run emacs and org-mode natively on smartphones and other gadgets. More and more of this devices come with a build-in GPS or at least they get can get the current location by tracking the mobile phone towers. Playing around with Android for a few days, I saw many applications which make use of the fact that the location is known to them. E.g. they show restaurants, shops, or doctors praxis close to you. I start wondering whether org-mode should get aware of my location and whether people might be interested to add a location tag to org-mode tasks. In a similar way as we add status, priorities, dates, tags, etc. It might be interesting to add a location. A special agenda search could list only those entries associated with my current location (or within a given circle). Since GPS coordinates are somehow ugly and human unreadable, I thought it should be possible to mask them similar to links. E.g., like [[gps://35.71083783530009,139.8175048828125][Somewhere in Japan +3km]]. Obviously, the first part has to be generated by read out the GPS location, the second part is a human readable description and a given radius. Closing this link would end up in Somewhere in Japan +3km. A C-a l could compile an agenda list only showing those entries which intersect with my current location. Obviously, it requires to read in GPS data, which might be tricky to do for all those different devices. Furthermore, it might need emacs-lisp code as well as some external program to read-out the position of the GPS module. But I guess the emacs-lisp gurus here might know this much better then I do. Another issue comes to my mind for mobileorg users. As far as I know, mobileorg only fetches agenda views from a server but does not generate them. However, this would be necessary to create this kind of location aware agendas. Would be nice to hear other opinions. Makes this sens? Should it be part of mobileorg, or rather a independent package? Maybe something for me to get used to emacs-lisp ?! ;) Bye Torsten ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
