<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/21 Aaron J. Seigo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, you wrote:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> And, Location awareness be implemented in a separate library ( ? ) and<br>
> >> plasma::Context will also be one of the consumers of it.<br>
> ><br>
> > right; the library most likely to be used right now for this is geoclue.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Well, I was actually talking of adding a wrapper to geoclue instead of<br>
> accessing it directly. As that would allow us the flexibility for<br>
> future extensions and maybe the possibility to swap the entire geoclue<br>
> for something better (if needed ! )<br>
<br>
</div>that would be fine; for plasma i was just going to wrap it behind<br>
Plasma::Context as i don't have the time to do a full on wrapper lib for<br>
geoclue. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
fortunately it looks pretty easy: there are really only three data outputs<br>
from geoclue right now, and we probably don't care much about one of them for<br>
Context (velocity).<br>
<br>
in plasma we will want the ability to get both the "raw" information (city,<br>
country, long/lat) as well as some useful mappings such as timezone (should<br>
hopefully be able to map locality -> timezone?) ...</blockquote><div> 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:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3402">http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3402</a><br>
</div><div><br>-- Richard<br> <br></div></div><br></div>