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The location-aware desktop

geo-information framework for mobile Linux desktops

Location matters

Your desktop or mobile knows who you are, what time it is, who you know and what you're doing.

But it doesn't know where it is.

Magic Ink










http://worrydream.com/MagicInk

HenriBergius

http://bergie.iki.fi

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin

http://www.pierlux.com

Mobile devices

GeoClue

A D-BUS service that applications can use to become geo-aware. Makes reading and writing geographical information as simple and easy as time or date.

GeoClue

as simple and easy as time or date.


...regardless of whether you deal with coordinates or civic location

GeoClue Architecture

Geoclue is D-Bus API definitions - but also implementations

Interfaces for "current location"

Position

Address

Velocity

Interfaces for conversion

Geocode (address to position)

ReverseGeocode (position to address)

GeoClue Properties

Location comes in many flavors

GPS

GSM

WiFi

IP address

Proximity

User tracking

...and that is not all

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Auditorio Alfredo Kraus
Avda. Prncipe de Asturias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Telepathy
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/

Instant messaging D-Bus API

Location-sharing through XMPP:
Where are my friends?

libchamplain
http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain

A Clutter (and Gtk+) map widget applications can use to display location information to users. Makes visualising and selecting a location easier.

Marble
http://edu.kde.org/marble/

A Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth and a light weight generic geographical map component for use in your own Qt 4.x / C++ application.

OpenStreetMap
http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Open content map project providing high-quality vector and bitmap map data

OpenStreetMap
http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Open content map project providing high-quality vector and bitmap map data

...not only for cars, but also bicycles, pedestrians, public transportation, ...

OSM2Go

Map editor for Maemo devices

Location is here
Examples of the State of the Art

Location as metadata

Geotagging made easy

EOG Map plugin: where was this picture taken?

F-Spot plugin: where were these pictures taken?

Getting Things GNOME
http://gtg.fritalk.com/

TODO items connected to location as a

Google Summer of Code 2009

Context for my friends

Instant messaging and microblogging can be used for sharing location

Empathy: Where are my friends?

Coming in next GNOME

Empathy: Where are my friends?

Coming in next GNOME

Context for me

Location awareness can help make apps smarter

GNOME panel clock

Gnome panel clock

Location-aware weather

Browser geolocation API

GeoClue
http://geoclue.freedesktop.org

Marble
http://edu.kde.org/marble/

libchamplain
http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain