Location Based Services (23)
CAknLocationEditor
From FP2 there is support for a native MFNE to allow the entry of coordinates. This editor is called the CAknLocationEditor control and can be found in AknLocationEd.h. Since coordinates are always represented as a latitude and longitude it makes sense to use this ...
Paul.Todd, 9 August 2009 |
Catching the first Mobile Monsters
I have been working on the Mobile Magic Monstervision Machine to improve the functionality and introduce better game play and the following images are screenshots captured during the first full scale trial. I added the holding trap (in a homage to Ghostbusters) to...
A mobile 'Magic Monstervision Machine'
I have been working on an interesting take on a location based game recently which incorporates user generated content in the form of sketches of monsters. It’s in collaboration with my friend and artist Andrew Wilson who ran a workshop at Institute of...
Release of the Ovi Maps Player API to developers
At Where 2.0 event at San Jose, Nokia announced the releaes of the Ovi Maps Player API to developers. With this, developers can embed the rich Ovi Maps features into their web sites. Some of the key features of the Ovi Maps are the 3D view, satellite and terrain...
In case of Fire: Point’n’Seek
I previously introduced a reinterpretation of the geo-wand concept we called Point’n’Seek along with its ability to create directional photographs to enable a mobile user generated streetview . The video that follows shows a version we were asked...
Chillrs: the mobile socially networked fridge
This blog relates to my favorite MSc project from last year which was completed by one my favorite students Klen Copic Pucihar who was also behind the very successful 4 in a row widget game. Basically I wanted to create a social network whose principal interaction was...
A mobile user generated street view
In my last post I introduced the project Point’N’Seek and in this post I present the latest added functionality which I hinted at in my last blog of allowing users to augment the POI of interest with their own location and direction aware photographs....
Point ‘n’ Seek: the return of the geo-wand
In light of the advancing sensor support on the latest phones I decided to revitalise some of my work in LBS with my student Zhang Lei particularly around the old idea of geo-wands. Whilst many LBS present scenarios for users searching for Points of Interest (POI) that...
ARound: LBS + sensors
Recently I had the chance to play a bit with the new Sensor FW API, made publicly available few weeks ago. It's no secret that such functionality will certainly bring new possibilities and offers to the s60 ecosystem. One such example is mixing the live video stream from...
Location-aware browsing on mobiles
Natural way of using location-based services (especially maps and navigation) on our mobiles is to use dedicated applications like Nokia Maps, Google Maps for S60, etc. Such applications are written in native C++ and have access to AGPS, wi-fi, network/cellid information, and...
How best to present 3D navigational information to...
A few blogs ago I said we had created a model of the Lancaster University campus which we (myself and Carlos) would transfer to the mobile phone to test some 3D navigation ideas for pedestrians. We have managed to get the model into M3G (and working reasonably well...
Widget Maps
This might be considered a bit lower tech than my usual fair but is a lot more accessible for the general public. As an aside from a presence based mobile social network project he is working on with me and Will (I will blog about it in future ) my MSc student...
Localize me... even if I don't have a GPS
Let's analyze many ways to get the user's geolocation. Recently, Google updated its Google Maps Mobile application with a new " My Location " feature that works even without GPS. If you do not have a GPS-enabled phone, you might see a blue dot...
NFC is good for you
As I have just had the paper Using NFC to Support and Encourage Green Exercise accepted for next year’s Pervasive Heath conference in Tampere Finland I thought I would give an insight into the project. It is well accepted that the increasingly...
GPS + Galileo signal - better possibilities for future...
According to the article " U.S., E.U. agree on common GPS-Galileo signal design " at EETimes, The United States and the European Union are moving forward on a common system of satellite navigation after reaching an agreement on a joint civil signal for the technology. The US...
Free maps, new APIs
With all the excitement over Open C, it might be easy to miss something interesting on the LBS front. New map framework APIs were announced as part of S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 . In a related announcement (at least it’s related in my...
Space, time, and conventional wisdom
Last week after the Smartphone show I took a couple of days off for a personal meditation on how today’s technology fits into an historical context. My partner and I took a river cruise down the Thames to Greenwich and visited the Royal Observatory, inside of which are...
are we creating mobility or immobility?
I came across this blog by Paul Hartzog by way of a colleague from Sociology here at Lancaster who looking into the different facets of mobility. Paul argues that through mobility we consequently create anti mobility for instance: ...
Nokia GPS units
I'm back from vacation. One of the things I used on the trip was the Nokia LD-1W GPS http://www.nokiausa.com/nokia_accessories/item_details/1,2305,product:LD-1W,00.html . Not too many...
Few Words About Location Based Services on Symbian Phones
I'm thinking about utilizing much more from cell and location information available on Symbian phones than it's done in any current application. Based on information I have, and I hope you'll correct me if I'm doing wrong, with today's public Symbian OS API we looking...
searching location based services on your phone
One of my PhD students Paul Gilberstson is working on methods related to algorithms that will allow searches of location based information on your mobile phone rather than through a server (although periodic data refreshing is required from the location server). The...
mobile graffiti- the writing is no longer on the wall !
Today we present another of our projects at ACE 2006 in a paper called “The Mobile Phone as a Digital SprayCan”. The project is called ‘ Mobspray ’ is based on the graffiti writing practice of ‘tagging’ were writers leave their...
visualising blogs across time and space
I have been working on a Python application that allows users to create an on-line Blog of text and images from their phone, using location coordinates from a Bluetooth GPS unit ,and ultimately links through to Google maps to produce a representation of their journey. Python...
