One of our original ideas for the MWOW project (http://museum.mit.edu/mwow
) was to have the local web app talk to a local web proxy which then
adds location info to the HTTP request and sends the request to a
remote server. That way you can use the on-board linux tools to query
a GPS, use wifi location, bluetooth beacons, etc.
The thing that immediately got in the way (on the 770) was that if you
were actually connected to a WiFi access point, the ability to read
signal strengths from the wifi radio got worse. Also, using the
iwtools would cause the connection to drop some of the time.
Regarding standards - there is the GeoClue project (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
) which tries to hide the locationing device details under a uniform
interface.
On the search side, there are no real standards for how to construct
the geo portion of a search. OpenSearch does have a geo extension
proposal (http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions/Geo/1.0/Draft_1
)
And, Darius, regarding your question about the MIT Museum, no we don't
have anything from those projects/groups but we do have other cool
stuff. Stop by if you're in the Boston area!
Allan
On Nov 27, 2007, at 19:29 , Darius Jack wrote:
Hi,
why not ?
It's a very popular gps monitoring application to send gps data to
www server
from gps-enabled cell phone, over GPRS.
It works fine for car, personal monitoring.
2 years ago I run such server and could watch tracks of 100 car live
in maps application.
There is nothing special to send gps data that way.
To have local search you can run middle-server communicating with
Google local
and Nokia tablet, residing gps data and query string and sending
back search results.
Why do you mean to introduce your idea as a standard ?
Some ppl need some privacy from time to time.
There is another solution. Under latest EUC proposal
operator of cell phone and manufacturer of sim card could be obliged
to incorporate gps chip into sim card to let operators of alarm
phone to know exact geoposition of a calling party on a map.
Another idea and solution already known in PDA +cell phone + gps
market.
I see no problem to incorporate your ideas into N770, N800, N810
(not smartphones).
Darius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
local search will not talk to the GPS unit connected to a 770,800,or
810.
You can go to local.google.com and put in a location, then do
something like search for the nearest pizza point. Works great.
Also some windows mobile and j2me phones/PDAs can download a google
maps app that talks to the gps device.
But what I'm talking about is a standard that any website can use
automatically by embedding something like into their page and
getting back a javascript object with the latitude & longitude info.
Luis
---- Darius Jack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> GPS-enabled search tool has been incorporated by Google under name
local search in last few years.
> Ok. Voice search makes it a minor novelty.
> Major problem is if What You Want is What You Get (service mark by
Darius) really works.
> Internet is not more global village as paid indexing is what
generates more and more money.
>
>
> To Allan.
>
> Do you have any items from MediaMoo, Microworlds, GNA at your MIT
Museum ?
>
> Darius
>
>
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