GeoClueAndrew Turner - ajturner@highearthorbit.com

Henri Bergius - bergie@iki.fi

State of the Mobile LBSopen

What’s Changed

Open Mobile Devices

GeoData Standards

Community Understanding

Thanks Google?

Neogeography

GeoStack

OpenSearch

http://search.org?q={searchTerm}

&lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}

-Geo

OpenSearch-Geohttp://maps.google.com/maps?near=43.3+-0.03

http://local.yahoo.com/?csz=43.3,-0.03http://upcoming.org/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03

http://api.flickr.com/services/photos_public.gne?bbox=-0.03,43.3, -0.04,43.4http://mapufacture.com/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03

lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}&radius={geo:radius}

bbox={geo:box}

where={geo:locationString}

area={geo:polygon}

Location

GPS

GSM

WiFi

IP Address

Proximity

User Tracking

But why is it so hard?

GeoClue

Provide a system service that applications can use to become geo-aware. Make reading

and writing geographical information as simple and easy as time or date.

Architecture

MaemoBlog

MaemoMapper

GeoRSS2POI

MaemoSurveyor

More Examples

• "I am in Helsinki"

• "Joe is in Paris"

• "It's 4am where Mike is, you might be waking him up with this stupid message you are writing!"

• "Looks like you are going to be in London when there is the rubber duck sale!"

• "Where is the file I got from Steve while I was in Boston Summit last october??"

Mapnik-based vector navigation app?

Participate

• #geoclue - irc.gnome.org

• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue