{"id":10,"date":"2004-12-27T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2004-12-27T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T16:22:45","slug":"locative-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/10\/locative-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Locative Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the advent of a language I can program on my phone, my first goal was to learn the language, and my second goal was to rewrite something that I think is an almost-great service, but missing a couple key features. With that in mind, I headed to work, first with my FOAF app. My work after that concentrated on a locative service based around cell towers, and learning the user interface aspects of the Python interface.<\/p>\n

Last night, I got my first victory in both: I wrote a decent (although minimal) user interface, which was able to communicate information about my location based on cell towers I was near. You can see the start of the work at http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/cell\/ . As I just described it to another mobile user, it’s going to be “Like CellSpotting<\/a>, without the suck.” Using services for anything is completely unneccesary, especially with how simple python makes it to build user interfaces. I don’t know how hard it is with the Symbian interface, but I want to make it better.<\/p>\n

My code is pretty simple so far, but it works. I will be continuing work on it tonight, but I’m already seeing other people start similar work, and I believe in shared efforts. So, the code<\/a> is available: the .py.txt is the Nokia python program, and the .php is the server-side script I’m using.<\/p>\n

I will be working on changing the way things work a lot, but I just want to show some of the cool things that can be done via the exposed Python interfaces on the mobile platform. Note that the actual Nokia code is only a dozen lines: which builds a nice interface, allows you to edit the form, and to send the data off. There’s not much funtionality yet: not even a way to update your location without exiting and reentering the program. However, it’s a start, upon which others can build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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