Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-27 Thread Naman Muley
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:11 AM, johnmS2 wrote: > On 04/27/2011 05:55 AM, Naman Muley wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Vitor Boschi > > wrote: > > > > Actually, Google can use information about which wifi access > > points (and/or cell tow

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-27 Thread Nikhil Marathe
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Naman Muley wrote: > > > Correct. But again, google does it globally. I am asking for a local map. > Because Google can't get into my sub-routers. Most of the campuses > now-a-days are hidden behing NATs. Google shall be able to map same location > for all people i

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-27 Thread johnmS2
On 04/27/2011 05:55 AM, Naman Muley wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Vitor Boschi > wrote: > > Actually, Google can use information about which wifi access > points (and/or cell towers in case of mobile phones) your computer > see and provi

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-27 Thread Naman Muley
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Naman Muley wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Vitor Boschi wrote: > >> Actually, Google can use information about which wifi access >> points (and/or cell towers in case of mobile phones) your computer see and >> provide a very precise location guess ba

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-27 Thread Naman Muley
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Vitor Boschi wrote: > Actually, Google can use information about which wifi access points (and/or > cell towers in case of mobile phones) your computer see and provide a very > precise location guess based on this. You could try this method too. Correct. But aga

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-27 Thread Vitor Boschi
Actually, Google can use information about which wifi access points (and/or cell towers in case of mobile phones) your computer see and provide a very precise location guess based on this. You could try this method too. Vitor On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Naman Muley wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-26 Thread Naman Muley
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Rohan Garg 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 p

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-26 Thread Rohan Garg
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" wrote: > HI Valentin, > > On Tue, Apr 26

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-26 Thread Naman Muley
HI Valentin, On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Valentin Rusu 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/in

Re: Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-26 Thread Valentin Rusu
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 Valentin >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listi

Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-26 Thread Naman Muley
Hi, I am Naman Muley, pre-final year student at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar. I wanted to join in the Season Of KDE. I have an idea which goes as follows: I want to build a desktop application. Much like a map, which give

Distributed Mapping Application - Idea For Season Of KDE

2011-04-26 Thread Naman Muley
Hi, I am Naman Muley, pre-final year student at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar. I wanted to join in the Season Of KDE. I have an idea which goes as follows: I want to build a desktop application. Much like a map, which give