2008/8/21 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wednesday 20 August 2008, you wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> And, Location awareness be implemented in a separate library ( ? ) and > > >> plasma::Context will also be one of the consumers of it. > > > > > > right; the library most likely to be used right now for this is > geoclue. > > > > Well, I was actually talking of adding a wrapper to geoclue instead of > > accessing it directly. As that would allow us the flexibility for > > future extensions and maybe the possibility to swap the entire geoclue > > for something better (if needed ! ) > > that would be fine; for plasma i was just going to wrap it behind > Plasma::Context as i don't have the time to do a full on wrapper lib for > geoclue. >
> fortunately it looks pretty easy: there are really only three data outputs > from geoclue right now, and we probably don't care much about one of them > for > Context (velocity). > > in plasma we will want the ability to get both the "raw" information (city, > country, long/lat) as well as some useful mappings such as timezone (should > hopefully be able to map locality -> timezone?) ... What does geoclue do - why is it a Gnome project? Shouldn't we be getting this kind of data from a SPARQL endpoint out on the web somewhere? I did implement a SPARQL based data engine to access DBPedia, but there is no reason why it couldn't be used to get geographical data: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3402 -- Richard
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