Hi Naman Actually, Google has a bunch of methods to extract your current location, and for desktops, it works best using the IP assigned to your computer ( since most PC's don't have a GPS module ).
Regarda Rohan Garg On Apr 27, 2011 3:43 AM, "Naman Muley" <naman.g.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI Valentin, > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Valentin Rusu <k...@rusu.info> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On 04/26/2011 01:15 PM, Naman Muley wrote: >> > Overall, if you have seen Harry Potter - The Prisoner of Azkaban , I >> > am talking about 'The Marauder's Map'. >> Have you seen this before ? >> http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/latitude/intro.html >> >> Yes I have. Google latitude is again a global system. It reads your > latitude and longitude and puts you in that location. I am talking about > making a localized application. I am thinking on how to get location without > the GPS. One of the ways is that I map not on a map but an abstract floor > and label routers by the name of the location. For e.g. John's cubicle is > connected to the router finance.ibm.com. along with 5 other people in the > finance department. Then, based on the topology that router is connected to > its nodes, one should be able to give a bacground-less map. > finance.ibm.comis then connected to say > security.ibm.com which is a WAP. The security guard's phone, based on the > signal strength it receives should be able to create a radius of a > particular distance around the WAP. The point is, if i am an employee of > the HQ of IBM, I dont need to visually see on a physical map where the other > person is. If I am told that he is 12 mts away from the Main Gate (where the > WAP is) that is enough for my purposes.I dont have to see visually where he > is roaming. I don't know if i have convinced you of the method. PLease reply > with further points. > > Valentin >> >> >> >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to >> unsubscribe << >> > > yours Thinkingly, > Naman
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