I like this a lot. How does the "nearby" query work? Does it returned bookmarked places that are owned by the submitting jid, or any bookmarked place nearby? What is "cellpatternquality" mean?
Also, how does the component push my location to my PEP node if I am on another server? Would this be allowed by XMPP servers? I would be interested in seeing these stanzas though to test it out. There is another application we are working on that involves XEP-0255. It currently supports what you are calling "beacon logs" stanzas to return back postal addresses. The system uses a combination of wifi access points/mobile towers to pinpoint your position and return back a lat/lon. It is very accurate in a populated area. For example you can see my location track here: http://movsoftware.com/locator/priv/viewusertrack.aspx?jid=spendle...@movsof tware.com That track was produced by a mobile phone that does not have GPS capabilities. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Tennant Sent: 03/28/2009 1:42 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [jdev] update on XMPP location (wherein beer is offered) A quick heads up on the state of XMPP location from Buddycloud Towers. The Buddycloud Social-Location-Server is now accepting XEP-0255 formatted location queries from *any* external JID. The server is and XMPP component addressable at butler.buddycloud.com. It listens for XEP-0255 formatted query stanzas and replies with your location and if you are near one of your defined places, your place name (Home, Work, My Castle). It also pushes your location and place details to your PEP geoloc node so that your friends know where you are. (We are keen to have publishing to external pub-sub working when we have a free moment.) Looking beyond the XEP-0255 standard (just defines querying location using wifi, cell towers and bluetooth), we are keen to standardise some of the other stanzas associated with place management and querying for nearby objects such as people, places or media. If you would like to work together on this, please get in touch. Additionally we are working with the OSLO group to address sharing location between companies. To give you an idea how XMPP location stuff works in the wild, I've put together a stanza capture of Kirk's (also lurking on these lists) journey to work. The stanza are visible in their full glory here: http://www.buddycloud.com/cms/node/90 And now for the beer part. It's springtime in Munich and the beergardens are opening. A XMPP nearby query will show you placemarks in the vicinity. So, to test external JIDs work and make things a little more interesting, I'm offering a cold Maß of beer to the first person to reply with the correct beergarden for the beer to redeemed at. In order to calculate this you will need to sequentially query (3 separate stanzas) the following three cell tower identifiers, run a nearby query and a place details query: 262:07:51520:34124757 262:07:51520:34104756 262:07:51520:34084753 (flights to Munich not included) S. -- Simon Tennant Buddycloud uk: +44 20 7043 6756 de: +49 89 420 955 854 uk: +44 78 5335 6047 de: +49 17 8545 0880 email and xmpp: [email protected] _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
