User location sharing

[daniele-athome]

From [email protected] on May 28, 2013 10:31:24

Send user location using XEP-0080: User Location http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/kontalk/issues/detail?id=85

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[daniele-athome]

From [email protected] on February 10, 2014 12:19:26

Labels: -Milestone-3.0 Milestone-3.0a3

[daniele-athome]

From [email protected] on February 22, 2014 08:42:02

Labels: -Milestone-3.0a3 Milestone-3.0a5

[sw1ftc0d3r]

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[geileszeuch]

Is this going to be sent encrypted? Since Kontalk focuses on security everything should be sent encrypted, from typing notifications over delivery receipts up to media and location sharing.

[sw1ftc0d3r]

Don't worry, location message will be sent encrypted, just finished developing.

[daniele-athome]

From Trello card:

• Openstreetmap support
• Calculate zoom depending on the requested size of a static map
• Choose position accuracy type
• Resize static map depending on device and context where it's used in (e.g. not all devices support big notifications)

[TheLastProject]

For OpenStreetMap support, it may be useful to look at the source code of Where Am I, an Android app made to show where an user is displayed on OpenStreetMap. It hasn't been updated in a year, but may still give some useful hints. (I don't know the app, randomly stumbled upon it on F-Droid, I can't vouch for the code quality or usefulness)

[TheLastProject]

https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid seems to be the library it uses. It markets itself as a replacement for Android MapView so hopefully has a similar API

EDIT: Seems some uncertainty around it. osmdroid/osmdroid#111 and osmdroid/osmdroid#71

[daniele-athome]

Thanks, I'll check them out.

[h-2]

Liberario (the free bus/tram application for almost all places in the world) uses https://github.com/grote/OSMBonusPack

[karlitos]

Hello,

may I ask what is the current status of the location sharing ?

I think it would be great if the user could choose from different map providers when choosing/displaying the location. (Google maps, OSM, HERE maps ...) I am asking this because I work for HERE and our Android devs could maybe help with this task.

[daniele-athome]

Hi @karlitos, we currently had some work done in two branches: position and xmpp_position, with different parts that were made for the old protocol and for XMPP. But they are so old and the code was so much refactored that those branches are now useless (besides, it was just a very small prototype and it was hard-coded to Google Maps).

The idea is to offer an activity (or a dialog for tablets) to choose a location (or a POI that can be searched) from. But the whole thing would have to be developed, not only support for HERE maps (and as you said it should have support for multiple maps providers). Your help in this would be much appreciated, but I don't know how much effort you can allocate.

[daniele-athome]

Awaiting review and merge at #1027.