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drfrog has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
looking around on line via google, here and cpan lists nothing about perl and LBS.
I found lots of stuff in java / brew but I am posting this as a last resort. I am hoping to find where the perl community is in regards to this area of technology
can anyone point me to any perl developers currently working in this field, or examples tutorials and perl modules?
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Re: LBS .....Location Based Services in perl
by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 19, 2004 at 19:36 UTC
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Sure. Any programmer can use stuff like Geo::Coder::US or basic database access to do geographic queries. This is pretty generic stuff that doesn't normally merit special mention. If expand on what you're looking for then maybe you'll get a more specific answer. | [reply] |
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yes i was rushing out the door when i posted this!
that link is in the right vein but im talking about location based services as they relate to the mobile market
things like j2me and brew can do location based service calculations ... im sure there must be a way to use perl to do the same thing by hitting a server and figuring out where the fone is , i just havent found it yet
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Oh. Well sure. You'd use the mobile phone's J2ME Location API to decide where the phone is and then just go use your server-side app and tell it that data. It doesn't matter what the server side is written in - you've probably just called your server as a URL or maybe as a web service if J2ME supports that. Most of your hard work will be writing the client-side J2ME code to access the phone's hardware via the Location API to decide what the current location is.
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