Stefan: I wanted to share some work that we've done at Socialight to solve exactly these problems. Socialight is a platform that allows you to create a "do-it-yourself" guide of a city. We recently released an API that will allow you to easily geo-tag text and image data. The API also gives you the ability to query all posts you've tagged - either using your location or a keyword search. [1]
We've built a J2ME mobile client on top of this API - and we've made it open-source. It's well-documented and is an active project that powers our live service. The client is essentially a thin client that wraps XML data processing along with a nice GUI and location (JSR179) capabilities. [2] This basically means that you can use the client with our service - or with slight modifications, you can get it to act as a frontend for another service you might write. You mentioned that most of the orphaned projects you came across are J2ME midlets. It's definitely hard to develop and maintain a J2ME application (especially with porting and GUI-related code). Because of this, we've taken steps to abstract and open up elements such as the GUI to make this whole process easier. J2ME is also important because it is one of the few widely available platforms out there than can give you a single container for handling camera, GUI and location functions. I hope you find it useful. naveen 1. http://socialight.com/api 2. http://code.google.com/p/socialight On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, M J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan - > > I have been obsessing about this topic for well over a year but haven't > gotten anywhere...but I've done a lot of research. > > The best option I could see so far is also a J2ME thing. But I believe that > you can send media (image, sound) from your phone through a server to a > website. The program/service is called GeoTracing - > http://www.geotracing.com/ - and it seems to be quite healthy. > > OpenDMTP (http://www.opendmtp.org/) seems to be another option, but my lack > of programming really hindered me in understanding how to make it work. And > it too may be platform limited. I haven't looked at it much in the past few > months so I don't know if it's progressing at all. > > I get frustrated with all of this for two reasons: I am not a programmer and > I don't have anyone yet to really work with to develop anything. > > The three main pieces (I think) are: > > Part 1 - Determining your location. This has more options but a lot of them > require you to depend on someone else's server which I wasn't really > interested in. (GPS enabled phone, GPS device, cell phone tower > positioning). Platform related programming or already developed programs). > > Step 2 - Tying the media (photos) to location (the tracklog or point > location). Platform related (?) programming. > > Step 3 - Sending the media to your desired location (social photo site, > personal site, etc.). Platform related programming and APIs(?). > > Anyway - check out GeoTracing - maybe it or the developers can help you out. > > Nif > > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Stefan Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Andrew proposed Flickr together with the mobile geolocating photo > application ZoneTag. That's what I would have suggested too. > > Now, ZoneTag 'only' supports Nokia and Motorola - and it's not open source > (like Shozu and Nokia Location Tagger)! > > > > Is anyone aware of an mobile geolocating photo application being released > as open source (often combined with a blog editor)? > > > > That's what I've found: > > * MobUp: http://mobup.blogspot.com/ > > * KaBlog: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kablog-j2me/ > > * Mobile Blogger: http://mobileblogger.sourceforge.net/ > > > > * jUploadr: http://juploadr.org/ > > > > But all are J2ME midlets and all are orphaned projects: > > There seems to be some potential for a new open source project...? > > > > Stefan _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
