Does anyone know a flight tracking service one could use to hook it as a backend to geoclue?

Happy Hackers brainstorming GeoClue

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!

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.

"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.

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.. )

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...

Monkeying south

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

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..