Maximiliano Firtman's Forum Nokia Blog - Localize me... even if I don't have a GPS

Hypotheek Berekenen

Hmm how come this is the last topic since almost 1 year on location based services. I expected that this area would be booming, so many apps and mash-ups I could think about that can rely on good info of the location of the user...

im with tote

Paul Coulton

Sorry but Im with tote on this one. Localisation is about relevance to a locality whereas your article is talking about location position finding and after that the position is related to a place normally through some form of spatial database.

Localization, location, internationalization, and so on

firt

Hi Tote,

Thanks for the comment!.

You are right, the term localization is often used as internationalization or globalization. But take a look at Wikipedia's definitions: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization)

"Generally, localization is the determination of the locality (location) of an object."

"localization is the adaptation of an object to a locality."

"In telecommunications, localization is a technique for determining the location of a user of a cell phone"

I think I was talking about localization, not only location. Perhaps I don't want to know where am I. Perhaps I want to know where I can find some restaurant, or if I have a friend near me.

Adapting information to the user location (accurately or not) isn't just finding the user's location.

I want my mobile "localized" applications in my language and also adapted to my geographical location.

Any other opinion? ;-)

Regards!

Localization != location

tote_b5

Max,

I just wanted to draw your attention to that fact that localization is something entirely different as finding a location. It's about providing a product (e.g. a software) in more languages. :)

Cheers,

Tote

Cell-id data base

croozeus

Well I Quite like talking about localizing non-GPS devices. Its tough but we do have the cell-id feature to cope up with it!
Now on large scale basis what we require is a database of cell-id with their locations be it from the operators or from any 3rd party company. Google has thought good idea of querying the other current cellid users.

I have been working on Location Based Services (LBS) in python.First I was working on 2nd edition devices and now on the 3rd edition GPS devices.But cellid still interests me a lot...Of course there are some issues with the 1 cell id conflicting with other. I have been testing the cellid of different places my city.I am soon gonna write an article on the same.

Hope we do have a solution with cellid soon! :-)

Best Regards
croozus