<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">One of our original ideas for the MWOW project (<a href="http://museum.mit.edu/mwow">http://museum.mit.edu/mwow</a>) was to have the local web app talk to a local web proxy which then adds location info to the HTTP request and sends the request to a remote server. That way you can use the on-board linux tools to query a GPS, use wifi location, bluetooth beacons, etc. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The thing that immediately got in the way (on the 770) was that if you were actually connected to a WiFi access point, the ability to read signal strengths from the wifi radio got worse. Also, using the iwtools would cause the connection to drop some of the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding standards - there is the GeoClue project (<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue)">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue)</a> which tries to hide the locationing device details under a uniform interface.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On the search side, there are no real standards for how to construct the geo portion of a search. OpenSearch does have a geo extension proposal (<a href="http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions/Geo/1.0/Draft_1)">http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions/Geo/1.0/Draft_1)</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And, Darius, regarding your question about the MIT Museum, no we don't have anything from those projects/groups but we do have other cool stuff. Stop by if you're in the Boston area!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Allan<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><div>On Nov 27, 2007, at 19:29 , Darius Jack wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br>why not ?<br>It's a very popular gps monitoring application to send gps data to www server<br>from gps-enabled cell phone, over GPRS.<br>It works fine for car, personal monitoring.<br>2 years ago I run such server and could watch tracks of 100 car live in maps application.<br>There is nothing special to send gps data that way.<br>To have local search you can run middle-server communicating with Google local<br>and Nokia tablet, residing gps data and query string and sending back search results.<br><br>Why do you mean to introduce your idea as a standard ?<br>Some ppl need some privacy from time to time.<br><br>There is another solution. Under latest EUC proposal <br>operator of cell phone and manufacturer of sim card could be obliged to incorporate gps chip into sim card to let operators of alarm phone to know exact geoposition of a calling party on a map.<br><br>Another idea and solution already known in PDA +cell phone + gps market.<br><br>I see no problem to incorporate your ideas into N770, N800, N810 (not smartphones).<br><br>Darius<br><br><b><i><a href="mailto:monteslu@cox.net">monteslu@cox.net</a></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> local search will not talk to the GPS unit connected to a 770,800,or 810.<br><br>You can go to local.google.com and put in a location, then do something like search for the nearest pizza point. Works great.<br><br>Also some windows mobile and j2me phones/PDAs can download a google maps app that talks to the gps device.<br><br>But what I'm talking about is a standard that any website can use automatically by embedding something like <script src="http://localhost:2947/gpsinfo"></script> into their page and getting back a javascript object with the latitude & longitude info.<br><br>Luis<br><br>---- Darius Jack <dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie> wrote: <br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> GPS-enabled search tool has been incorporated by Google under name local search in last few years.<br>> Ok. Voice search makes it a minor novelty.<br>> Major problem is if What You Want is What You Get (service mark by Darius) really works.<br>> Internet is not more global village as paid indexing is what generates more and more money.<br>> <br>> <br>> To Allan.<br>> <br>> Do you have any items from MediaMoo, Microworlds, GNA at your MIT Museum ?<br>> <br>> Darius<br>> <br>> <br><br></dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie></blockquote></blockquote>[... rest cut to stay below the 20K limit imposed by lists.maemo.org ...]</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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