Presented at Unplugged 2011
While location-based mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular, they are still relatively new. Special considerations need to be made for battery life and handling large data sets of geolocated data. The good news is there are many services and technologies you can use to assist you in building mobile location-based apps.
In this session, Aaron Parecki, co-founder of Geoloqi.com, shows you services you can leverage to do things like nearby business lookups, location-based triggers, nearest intersection queries, and more. Aaron also covers the location services available on the various mobile platforms as well as in HTML 5, and shares some insights on how to deal with battery life. The session concludes with some real-world use cases for real-time location such as turning on and off your lights in your house or notifying your boss if you'll be late to work.
Example Code
Live demos
- Get the user's location
- Track the user's continuous location
- Find nearby businesses with SimpleGeo
- Get city, state, weather, and more information about a location
Example Geoloqi applications
- (Still in development)
- Home Automation with Geoloqi example
- https://github.com/aaronpk/Point-Runner
- https://github.com/aaronpk/MapAttack
