<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Jukka.Rissanen@nokia.com">Jukka.Rissanen@nokia.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Jukka.Rissanen@nokia.com">Jukka.Rissanen@nokia.com
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi,</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">there exists various APIs for <span id="st" name="st" class="st">GPS</span> location data in OS2007. These APIs should be used by applications instead of connecting directly to BT <span id="st" name="st" class="st">
GPS</span> device. The APIs enable multiple applications to receive positioning data simultaneously i.e., one application cannot steal the <span id="st" name="st" class="st">GPS</span> device to itself.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">As an example of the API usage, I created wiki page at <a href="http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToUseGPSFrameworkInOS2007" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToUseGPSFrameworkInOS2007</a>. The wiki page describes geotagging application that uses the <span id="st" name="st" class="st">GPS</span> APIs in OS2007.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The geotagging tool consists of three parts and they can be found in maemo garage at</font>
<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/gps-saver/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://garage.maemo.org/projects/<span id="st" name="st" class="st">
gps</span>-saver/</a></font>
<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/gps-starter/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://garage.maemo.org/projects/<span id="st" name="st" class="st">
gps</span>-starter/</a></font>
<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/gtag/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://garage.maemo.org/projects/gtag/</a></font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Jukka</font></p></div></blockquote><div><br>Do you know of any plans to expose these APIs to Python? I wrote a GPS app in Python for the 770, but it really relied on gpsd running on another machine, so I'm pleased to see gpsd on the 800 and it'd be nice to spawn it off simply from the code.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Dave <br></div><br></div>