[maemo-developers] Barcode Scanner and Shopping Assistant [report 2]

[From: Amit Sethi]

hi all,
         This is second report for Barcode Scanner and shopping Assistant .
In these two weeks i have spent my time majorly on writing the client side
of the app i.e the part of processing the image and sending the barocode and
location  to the server . Also I worked on a server side script that gets
prices from Google Base . Google Base I think simplifies our job a lot when
it comes to price comparison and since google base and yahoo shopping get
their feeds from a lot of other sites , i think are farely sufficient when
it comes to web based price comparison . I also worked on getting  location
using the gps  on the device. And a script for reverse Geocoding using
geonames .

>> My next step is to complete the work on client side app .Solve it bugs. I
would be working closely with my mentor on this especially to include any
considerations one would  make considering the size and the usage of the
device

>> Start work on a django based server . In this i would like suggestions
from the community on how  i can collect data from various sources like
google base and yahoo shopping. Also this system of collection also should
reflect  how people could add their own plugins to add more and more sources
.  Looking forward to inputs.

Amit Sethi
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