Hello,
This service won't help anyone to "discover"your independent site, it's
just something that you can use to determine the location of your users.
You'll place a link to DoCoMo's server on your site, when users click on it
then the DoCoMo server determines their location and asks for confirmation.
If the user confirms then the server sends their "area code" to the CGI of
your choice (you specify that in a parameter when you send the user to the
DoCoMo site). Japan is broken down into about 480 areas. Each of these
areas is broken down into grids of various resolutions.
Ron
At 20:49 02/02/24 -0500, you wrote:
>Seems that docomo is about to release an open version of their i-area
>service. Can someone describe some of the i-area guidelines/details in
>English for us? A Japanese pdf is available at the links below. Curious
>to know if somehow an i-mode user can "discover" your independant web
>content associated with a particular location. How does that work? Thanks,
>Al
>
>This is from their corp website:
>
>--- NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has released "open i-area"
>service guidelines, available in Japanese on the company's website at
>http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/p_s/imode/iarea/open.html.
>
>"open i-area" allows any information service provider to supply content to
>i-areaTM users. "i-area" is a feature of DoCoMo's service, delivering
>weather, dining, traffic, and other types of information accessed from 482
>separate areas throughout Japan. Since i-mode base stations can
>automatically recognize a subscriber's location, information is organized
>according to the dialing area in which the handset is being used. This
>enables users to search locations quickly and easily without having to
>handle vast amounts of information about unrelated areas.
>
>Up until now, only official information service providers selected by DoCoMo
>were allowed to provide i-area content via i-mode portal sites. The open
>i-area service lets anyone relay i-area information to users through i-mode
>server centers. Users will be asked to reconfirm their location before prior
>to accessing unofficial i-area sites. DoCoMo will start providing this
>service as soon as i-mode centers have been modified.
>
>The guidelines include basic specifications for i-area content, DoCoMo's
>policy on open i-area service, an i-area map that shows area division and a
>description of locations in these specified areas.
>
>http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/p_s/imode/iarea/open.html
>
>an old link I found in keitai-l:
>http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/i/iarea/main.html
>
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Received on Mon Feb 25 12:02:31 2002