On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Rohan Garg <rohang...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Naman > Hi Rohan, > 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 ). > Yeah, and they become pretty lame when trying to work to find out the location inside a campus. This is exactly what I want to make. Google Latitude can get your location exactly only unto your ISP router. That is why they have kept 3 granularity levels i think, country city or something. (I tried it some time back). Basically it shows the location of your ISP router and not your own location. But I am talking about local mapping like inside a campus. Plus, right now, I am in DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. DA-IICT has a NAT. Everything we do, any of us, we do by the NAT address( which currently is 117.211.88.42) . This will restrict the granularity of my location to only m y NAT address. I want to find my locaiton inside the campus. For that I use pretty much the same method that Google Latitude uses, but on the internal architecture of my campus. ( For e.g. DA-IICT has 4 main routers, hostel, faculty, library and Lab). consisting of routers and sub-routers. Rohan Garg Yours, Naman > 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 > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << > >
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