June 24th conference talk at Muther of all Hackathons on Adding Location to your App

1. Adding Location to your App June 24, 2011 Brent Hamby Software Architect at deCarta brent@decarta.com 101 - Advanced: How To Make A Good App Great 1 deCarta Internal Use Only

2. Three steps to adding LBS technology to your app: 1.) Figure out how to determine the location of the device hosting your app, e.g. the phone, tablet or computer... 2.) Figure out how to store (thereby share) and query the location data, e.g. the server, service, database… 3.) Figure out how to visualize the data via Maps, Pins, Shapes etc. What’s the deal with Location ‘LBS’? 2 deCarta Internal Use Only

3. iPhone CLLocationManager API reference : http://bit.ly/hWRYjV single / continuous reporting, accuracy, altitude, heading, proximity alerts with wake up Quick Start : http://bit.ly/g3RYsf Android LocationManager API reference: http://bit.ly/aFcx8d single / continuous reporting, accuracy, altitude, heading, proximity alerts, provider control Quick Start : http://bit.ly/aNymXH HTML5 Apps W3C Geolocation API : http://bit.ly/3r737c single / continuous reporting, accuracy, altitude, heading (in spec) Quick Start : http://bit.ly/mThs0R PhoneGap Native/Web build tool : http://phonegap.com Location : GPS & AGPS Detection 101 3 deCarta Internal Use Only

4. RDBMS options: PostGresPostGIS : http://postgis.refractions.net MySQL Spatial Extensions : http://bit.ly/5B2ZRn Oracle Spatial: http://bit.ly/f5zTdz SQLite Spatial : http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/ NoSQL Options: MongoDB Spatial: http://bit.ly/c3puXs (point/radius or bounding box) CouchDB Spatial: http://bit.ly/6tAGRz (point/radius or bounding box) Debate on SQL vsNoSQL: http://bit.ly/jymerY Hosting Options for the impatient: AWS: http://bit.ly/sdCp (free micro instance, public AMI catalog) Hosted Service Options for immediate use: SimpleGeo: http://www.simplegeo.com Location : Storage & Spatial Retrieval 101 4 deCarta Internal Use Only

5. iPhone iOSMapkithttp://bit.ly/isBj6o - Maps, Pins, Shapes, ReverseGeocoder deCarta iOS API :http://bit.ly/mE5lSv - Maps, Pins, Routes, 2D/2.5D, Geocoder, ReverseGeocoder, Tile Storage, OpenGL rendering, Satellite Android deCartahttp://bit.ly/koRgiW - Maps, Pins, Routes, 2D/2.5D, Geocoder, RevGeocoder, Tile Storage, OpenGL or Canvas rendering Googlehttp://bit.ly/RYrEv - Maps, Pins, Satellite, StreetView, Traffic HTML5 Binghttp://bit.ly/ehA6R9 - Maps, Pins, Birdseye, Satellite, Shapes, Overlays deCartahttp://bit.ly/eMA2Xm - Maps, Pins, Search, Routes, Geocoder, RevGeocoder, Tile Cache, Shapes, Overlays, Satellite Googlehttp://bit.ly/cry3f0 - Maps, Pins, Satellite, StreetView, Traffic, Shapes, Overlays, Routes, Geocoder, RevGeocoder Location : Visualizing 101 5 deCarta Internal Use Only