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Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica)
Here's a
brief survey of location-oriented tools for Linux. "The GTK+
widgets provided by libchamplain have already been adopted by several GNOME
applications. A new plugin for the GNOME image viewer, for example, will
display a map with markers to show the location of images with geolocation
metadata. The library is also going to be used in Empathy, the GNOME
instant messaging client. Empathy's new location-aware functionality uses
an XMPP extension that describes a wide range of location metadata. It is
built on top of GeoClue and uses libchamplain to display a graphical user
interface."
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Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica) Posted Jan 28, 2009 0:29 UTC (Wed) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
Hooray! Except they completely forgot about kde/marble which has been around for quite a while now and is used in several kde apps.
Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica) Posted Jan 28, 2009 3:43 UTC (Wed) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172) [Link]
This article talks about two different aspects of geolocation: getting the location to the application and displaying that location in a user friendly way. Marble covers the latter but not the former, afaics.
Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica) Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:28 UTC (Wed) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]
Marble is not dependent on KDE, it also can be used in Qt-only apps.
I.e. at the time you build marble, you can decide whether you want to build the Qt-only version or the version with KDE integration.
Alex
Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica) Posted Jan 28, 2009 6:31 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
So, what, they never heard of Mapserver? PostGIS? GDAL/OGR? All of those have been running on Linux for years.
Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica) Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:47 UTC (Wed) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172) [Link]
These are all server-side things for GIS. Geoclue is about deeply integrating geolocation into the desktop, providing geographic information in real time. Libchamplain (and I guess Marble) is about showing maps with that information on them, again in an easily digestible format.
For the record: FreeGIS.org Posted Jan 28, 2009 8:08 UTC (Wed) by JJ (guest, #2321) [Link] The FreeGIS Project provides:
Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform (ars technica) Posted Jan 28, 2009 13:58 UTC (Wed) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
Wow. The article mentions http://gsmloc.org. I haven't seen that much comment spam in a very very long time:
http://gsmloc.org/locate?nid1=460&nid2=0&lac=6144...
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