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.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lars Persson Fink</b> <<a href="mailto:lars_p_fink@yahoo.se">lars_p_fink@yahoo.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>I (like most others) saw the news of the N810, with built in GPS.<br>Someone suggested that the maemo community could work for more location<br>aware applications, that got me thinking about the idea of the Route
<br>Finder Service.<br><br>Unfortunately I do not have the time or competence needed in order to<br>actually implement this, so I am posting it in the hope that someone<br>else may do it.<br><br>I believe it would be nice to have a service that other applications can
<br>ask for routes, not IP-routes but routes between locations. This service<br>could then utilize other route providing services (GPS, google, MS<br>virtual earth, local subway webpage etc) to find the actual routes.<br>
<br>I think it would be useful if the service provided some "plugin"<br>functionality, preferably through some scripting language, so it would<br>be easy to extend it towards different route providing services. For
<br>instance I believe most Subways have a web-page that you can ask to get<br>information about trips, but they are all different, so the service<br>would have to be adapted.<br><br>Some examples:<br>1. If I select an address in my address book I could ask the application
<br>to give me directions on how to go there.<br><br>2. My calendar could check the location of my next appointment and get<br>my current location from the GPS to send off an alarm a couple of<br>minutes before I need to leave, based on the Route Finder service
<br>estimation of the travel time.<br><br>Best Regards,<br>Lars Persson Fink<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:maemo-users@maemo.org">maemo-users@maemo.org
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