very cool ... as I understand it the location service is available to the entire system and there's an API for this... (I'm not a developer either). The N800 will also support this via Bluetooth GPS... with the new 2008 OS. On 10/19/07, Lars Persson Fink <lars_p_fink at yahoo.se> wrote: > > Hi, > > I (like most others) saw the news of the N810, with built in GPS. > Someone suggested that the maemo community could work for more location > aware applications, that got me thinking about the idea of the Route > Finder Service. > > Unfortunately I do not have the time or competence needed in order to > actually implement this, so I am posting it in the hope that someone > else may do it. > > I believe it would be nice to have a service that other applications can > ask for routes, not IP-routes but routes between locations. This service > could then utilize other route providing services (GPS, google, MS > virtual earth, local subway webpage etc) to find the actual routes. > > I think it would be useful if the service provided some "plugin" > functionality, preferably through some scripting language, so it would > be easy to extend it towards different route providing services. For > instance I believe most Subways have a web-page that you can ask to get > information about trips, but they are all different, so the service > would have to be adapted. > > Some examples: > 1. If I select an address in my address book I could ask the application > to give me directions on how to go there. > > 2. My calendar could check the location of my next appointment and get > my current location from the GPS to send off an alarm a couple of > minutes before I need to leave, based on the Route Finder service > estimation of the travel time. > > Best Regards, > Lars Persson Fink > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071019/1601da93/attachment-0001.htm
