Guadec approaching..
So, its this time of the year again. For those who have the Nokia internet tablets and are going to be there, this might be useful (I created a small location database for maemo mapper, containing some things related to guadec 2007)
Daily Source Code #545 mentions GPS and N800
Dear lazyweb, how hard is it to make Adam Curry who ponders Nokia N800, GPS and some clever code to find out about Geoclue? (hi! 
good show!)
FL370 – 37000 feet in the sky.
Internet and Lufthansa free promotion offer. Sweet. Thanks everyone for a very interesting Summit. I am on my way back home, somewhere above the UK I would guess. The 770 really works fine for the copious legroom and space of *ahem* less than first class 
Does anyone know a flight tracking service one could use to hook it as a backend to geoclue?
Geographic fun everyone!
We're making nice progress in GeoClue in GnomeSummit. Lots of people got interested in the idea, and a lot of lively brainstorming and excitement: "So I want to make GWeather show your current weather automatically, based on your location!" etc.. Awesome!
One of our projects is to have our hacker community more location aware, and one step in that is to have our blogs geotagged. So go, get the GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress (if anyone knows other blog engines that support this, let us know!) - and start tagging your blog entries with location. Then we can make PlanetGnome show our locations, as well as plotting ourselves on the PlanetMap.
It's great that one of the GeoRSS plugin authors contacted us also, and he is talking with the GeoRSS.org people to try to get some common agreement on how the XMLRPC weblog API could support this information as well. Neat to have co-operation between the Linux Desktop and Blogging communities!
So go, get the plugin and start being geo-aware. I want to see us swarming to Birmingham like a bunch of bees on the map during next Guadec!
Geotagging blog posts
Does anyone know if there is a way to add geotags into blog posts via any of the weblog API's?
Another thing that we need to figure out is how to add those tags into blog RSS feeds. The goal is to get Planet to become aware of the location of each post, so we can create a map of them.
I found this plugin that does something what I want, but there's still some research to be done to make this work..
Edit: Looks like the above mentioned GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress actually does encode the coordinates to the feeds, which is neat. Now, does anyone know a way to actually adding the location information in the first place, by using a blog API that Gnome Blog can use? There's a nice UI in Wordpress web editor itself, that can be used to set location, but I want GeoClue to set it automatically for me.
They made it!
The DeathMonkey race is over, two of three guys are in Gibraltar, and even the third got very close before having his vechicle stolen in Pamplona. Duh..
"Bob" aka "The guy I did the GUADEC talk with" used his Nokia 770 to blog from the trip, looks like it was a useful tool for that. Need to have some blogging tools for offline writing though.
Congrats for the achievement and thanks for the entertainment.
Quick maps
Stumbled on this pretty nice site which lets you plot stuff on a map, using the google maps API and lets you either link to the map (like this) or embed it on your own site (let's see how this works, below - and whether planet likes it or not..)
Edit: Ok, looks like planet does not include the embedded iframe, perhaps it's a wise move to avoid abuse.. it would have been nice though. Jeff, maybe you can have a look at it sometime? For everyone interested who is reading this through planet gnome or maemo, click the post title above to see the embedded map as well. For those interested, it's our flight route we had on saturday while visiting the annual pilots' fly-in in Jämijärvi, Finland. Some photos of the event can be found here. (heh, I used *all* my blog categories in this post, except for "work", since I am on vacation, of course.. 
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This would have been handy during Guadec, for the ice cream case. So much easier than taking screenshots and using the Gimp to plot stuff on the map..
Now, what if this was combined to some "friends" -system so that everyone who was a member of the "guadec" group could have added their own interesting notes and tags on the map? That would have been very interesting...
I have interesting friends..
Of course all of you are interesting and wonderful, my dear readers, no doubt about that. But this time I want to tell you about the guy I did my GUADEC talk with - Henri. He's on the road again, thundering down Sweden towards Gibraltar. In a Honda Monkey - the mini-moped, with 2 other guys riding similar "vehicles".
Originally uploaded by henribergius.
See http://www.deathmonkey.org for more information. While on the road, Henri blogs with his Nokia 770 by the way. Check the page for their progress, and see if they drive by your country and invite them for a beer or something. Henri's website has contact information if needed
Testing..
Lets see whether this plugin works any better for geotagging..
Also, this was interesting.
Now we also need a way for the blog to remember my location, so I dont have to specify it for every post separately. Ideally of course, my desktop would update it through a xmlrpc api..
Wordpress and Geotagging
I found a Wordpress plugin that does geotagging of posts. I need to see how well it works and whether it tags the RSS feed with location as well. And whether there is an xmlrpc interface to set the location and whether it is possible to do it via the blog api - then my compute could do it automatically for me when I write a post from gnome blog applet or from the Nokia 770..
Then we can hack planet to support it with interesting ways - including the almost realtime hacker plotter. Am I the only one who thinks this stuff is cool?
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