I've just released some "proof of concept" code at http://drupal.org/project/whereis, it's an application that runs on your Symbian phone (Nokia S60), queries your GPS for your lat/long, and sends your coordinates to Drupal using XMLRPC.
At the moment, Drupal will receive a node id, latitude and longitude, and it will simply update the location-enabled node with the new coordinates.
This is all at a very basic level at the moment, but in the future it opens up many possibilities - think Google Latitude style functionality for Drupal.
The app is written in PyS60 (Python for S60), which I hope is a good choice as Python seems to be ported to everything these days. ;)
Anyway, just wanted to shout out to anyone who's interested, would love to hear opinions on the direction this could go, or other relevant work that's being done.
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very cool!
Mark,
This is very cool and timely! Thanks for posting this!
-jim
Jim, Chicago Technology Co-operative
www.chicagotech.org
Jim, Chicago Technology Co-operative
www.chicagotech.org
Glad you like it! There's
Glad you like it! There's only a page or so of code at the moment, but loads of ideas floating around that I'm really keen to implement. Always keen for other interested developers to help out.
For starters, I've been looking at the Services module as a possible tool to aid in the server side development. Looks like a great way to work with XMLRPC.
http://drupal.org/project/services
Check out the zhiing application created by ZOS Communication
Great discussion here guys. Another option for location interaction with websites and mobile is zhiing. With the zhiing Send to Phone web utility you can send location from a website directly to any mobile device through the zhiing client, complete with maps and point to point directions. It's the reverse functionality that you are discussing here, but I thought you would find it interesting.
Take a look at the web developer utilities here:
http://www.zoscomm.com/industry-solutions/web-developers-and-send-to-pho...
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or are implementing it on your drupal sites. We'd love to get some feedback.
Thanks!
Kyle
Director of Marketing at ZOS Communications
www.zhiing.com
www.zoscomm.com