Location based services

[MANUU]

Hi, I am interested in location based services project.. can anybody
help me on:

1. appropriate tools (prog languages,database and servers)

2. how to detect user position(real time)

3. links to where i can find usefull information.....

4. anything that you think can help me in my project, i'll highly
appriciate!!

(note: the project in mind is mobile based,so anythng on mobile
programming could be usefull)

[iTony]

What platform do you want to develop for? This will help narrow down
the amount of resources that one would suggest to you ..

[ibraraj]

On database, i would suggest PostgreSQL. It has an extension called
postGIS that can be used for storing and manipulating geographic
information. On language you can use python, php etc depending on your
platform.

Best luck on your project.

On Apr 5, 6:17 pm, MANUU <emachang...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Allen Machary]

Hi..., what a curious question will be what mobile platforms are u targeting eg. Android, Symbian, Bada..?

but on general terms..

on server-side you'll want all the services/places stored in the system with geo-position attached.. best db for this is Postgrel, Mysql works too, and even sqlite support spatial data now.. 

u'll definitely need Google Map Api for your own visualization and easy tagging of places instead of manually entering coordinates.

i have now idea on how u planning on the interaction on the mobile part. But either it be a plain string response or a full map viewer, u'll have to figure out to capture ur on gps position and send to the server which will return nearby marks.

More info:

links:

http://bit.ly/hWZvv7 -- Google Map Api V3

http://bit.ly/g3agfs  -- jQuery

--
Allen Machary.

[machaku]

Probably geodjango (geographic web framework based on python/django) can be helpful on server side if the service is client-server, web based service.