(keitai-l) Re: open i-area service guidelines

Hi Ron,

Can you point me to documentation for DoCoMo's implementation that you have
described below (the URL model for accessing location information)?

Thanks,
Ryan Nobrega

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> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Ron Schei
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:51 AM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: open i-area service guidelines
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>
> 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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