Jonathan, glad you like my idea. Hopefully we can get some developer to like it too. :-) Yes, the Route Finder Service would be available through an API (via dbus) to all the system, but it would not be dependent on a GPS. My thought was that it would be possible to supply the service with a source and a destination address and have respond with a route and information about the route, for instance the estimated time. The Route Finder Service could then ask Google (or some other web-service) OR the GPS to calculate the route. /Lars fre 2007-10-19 klockan 02:09 -0400 skrev Jonathan Greene: > 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 -- Lars Persson Fink hem: 08 722 42 15 H?radsdomarv?gen 11 mob: 070 334 35 97 128 38 Skarpn?ck
