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.

We have obtained the second place in the OpenMovilForum competition!!. This competition takes place every year and its aim is to promote the use of OpenMovilForum APIs. We presented a modified version of LibreGeoSocial that use the Movistar services througth OpenMovilForum APIs. The main idea is to allow the use of mobile social networks on mobile devices that do not have GPS device or GSM network access.

You can see in the video [1] how our mobile social network works with the Movistar services CopiaAgenda, Localizame and EnvioSMS  through OpenMovilForum APIs. You can read in [2] more documentation.

[1] http://libregeosocial.morfeo-project.org/archives/libregeosocial-use-openmovilforum-apis-video
[2] http://forge.morfeo-project.org/wikis/libregeosocial/index.php/Docs_LibreGeoSocial-OMF

You can see in this video how is possible that  a mobile social network works with the Movistar services:  ‘CopiaAgenda’, ‘Localizame’ and ‘EnvioSMS’  through OpenMovilForum apis.

The main idea is to allow the use of mobile social networks on mobile devices that do not have GPS device or GSM network access.

You can obtain more information about this project in the wiki section.

LibreGeoSocial is a new libre (free/Open source) mobile social network whose nodes have the attribute of “geo-located position”. Both, the source code of the backend and the Android client are distributed as libre software.

The Geo-Location Social Network consists of:

* Core backend: It implements the geo-located social graph, geo-located text notes (soon with pictures too) and external input geo-channels. The backend is developed in Python. You can use it as a module, independent of the Android client application.

* A REST API that wraps the core backend of the social network thus allowing heterogeneous clients to the core backend.

* Android client application: The Android application interacts with the REST API to get/put information (notes, nodes in the social graph, relations among them, etc.)