Sam Joseph wrote:
> Just following up on myself after getting some help from the javahz list.
> The Docomo i-area service is conceivably being used in the train app,
> although it seems this can't be accesssed directly from a 3rd party java
> app, since it requires access to a docomo server which is not the one
> that the appli was downloaded from. Although I think official Docomo
> developers can get permission to access other web servers - so it might
> be possible to combine all these things in an official appli.
>
> So it looks like it's easy to build imode sites that use iarea, but not
> so easy with iappli ...
It is possible to read the current cell ID from Java? If so, it may be
possible to build a collaborative tool for linking cell IDs to
meaningful place names (like stations or neighborhoods) along the lines
of what the folks at cellspotting[1] have done.
In my opinion, this sort of open effort to consolidate location data is
the only way location-based services will become truly ubiquitous. As
long as the service providers are hoarding the data they're going to
make developers pay through the nose.
Ryan
[1] http://cellspotting.com/
Received on Wed Apr 7 06:49:14 2004