The video shows the features of LibreGeoSocial. The app has been checked in G2 mobile with Android 1.5 (cupcake).

Enjoy it!

Two weeks ago we were in “Feria MovilForum 2009″ specifically in the openMovilForum stand. We presented LibreGeoSocial and its integration with the APIs and services of openMovilForum.

The openMovilForum core made a promotional video where they explain how LibreGeoSocial uses the openMovilForum services.

 We have begun to study the routes concept. Using the Android framework and the GPS position we can obtain our location in every moment.

The route can be compose by initial point and final point, but with this type of route we lose some interesting data like congestion, stops or time we are in a certain place. So, we can implemented a meanish that save routes with several points of information. For example, we are saving the location (latitude,longitude) and the datetime each five second (independently of distance traveled from the previous point). Using this system we can obtaing routes such as those the image shown.

We can see in the image where we have had more congestion (accumulation of points) or areas where we have gone faster (points separated).  Also we can get this mechanism saving points each five seconds if the distance traveled from the previous point is more than 15 meters (for example). This way doesn’t require to save a lot of points, it’s sufficient save the timestamp of each point and analize this inofrmation later.

In this video we can see how is possible to tag and see resources with different positions and heights with Android, due to Orientation sensor and GPS location.
First, we have been located previously, and we tag the garage of a building. Now, the tag “garage” has a height, so if we don’t face the object appropiately, we could’t see it. Later, we tag the second floor of the same building, and we observe that this new object is over the “garage” object. So we can watch the “2D” viewing (orientation, elevation) of our environment tags

We are very interesting in research about the location using compass and gps information.