You could definitely extend the presence packet with an <x/> element in a special namespace, and in that element you could include GPS coordinates or whatever you want. You'd have to run presence packets through a server component to add that info if it lives server-side, though.
Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] weblog: http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/ On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Henry Minsky wrote: > > I am working on a project where we have a server that is tracking users' > locations > via various technologies, and recording them in a realtime database. > > I would like to be able to annotate each jabber user on the server with > some information about their physical location. This information would most > likely be > retrieved in the presence information for each user, although might there > be some better place to put it, such as a new separate iq query? > > Note that the clients themselves do not necessarily know their own locations, > that information is derived on the server, so I need my "location server" to > somehow inject the location information for each user into the jabber > server, where it can be accessed by custom clients, or perhaps also stuffed > into the english-readable status strings, for backward compatibility with > existing > clients. > > Anyone else working on something like this? > > Thanks, > Henry Minsky > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
