geolocation / geotagging in org-mode

geolocation / geotagging in org-mode

[Kurt Schwehr]

Hi all,

I have a couple questions about geolocation in org mode.  I am still in 
the first two weeks of learning org mode and shifting my workflow to it.

* Is there a standard way to specify a point, line, polygon in org mode?

We take a lot of notes about installation of science gear in the field 
and make observations.  Being able to tag where this was in a standard 
way would be great.  I just write WKT (Well-know text), but if there is 
already a standard for org mode, it would be good for me to stick with that.

* Is there an easy way to call a geolocation service from inside of 
org-mode to tag the location of an entry?

* And, Has there been any thought to exporting a time and location 
tagged KML of a document?  This would make reporting notes from research 
cruises on ships from org mode be really powerful.

It would be great to move beyond the hand crafted things that I do for 
this.  Imagine a field scientist with a laptop or MobileOrg taking 
notes.  One example of the kind of thing that I would like to produce:

http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/resume/schwehr-resume.kml

Thanks,
-kurt
http://schwehr.org/blog

Re: geolocation / geotagging in org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Kurt,

that sounds like fun, but I have no idea how to access geolocation data.

This would be a great extension for Org-mode, both geotaggging of  
location
in the logbook, and export to KLM.

Is there anyone around here who understands how these things work and  
who would
be willing to help?

- Carsten

On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a couple questions about geolocation in org mode.  I am still  
> in the first two weeks of learning org mode and shifting my workflow  
> to it.
>
> * Is there a standard way to specify a point, line, polygon in org  
> mode?
>
> We take a lot of notes about installation of science gear in the  
> field and make observations.  Being able to tag where this was in a  
> standard way would be great.  I just write WKT (Well-know text), but  
> if there is already a standard for org mode, it would be good for me  
> to stick with that.
>
> * Is there an easy way to call a geolocation service from inside of  
> org-mode to tag the location of an entry?
>
> * And, Has there been any thought to exporting a time and location  
> tagged KML of a document?  This would make reporting notes from  
> research cruises on ships from org mode be really powerful.
>
> It would be great to move beyond the hand crafted things that I do  
> for this.  Imagine a field scientist with a laptop or MobileOrg  
> taking notes.  One example of the kind of thing that I would like to  
> produce:
>
> http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/resume/schwehr-resume.kml
>
> Thanks,
> -kurt
> http://schwehr.org/blog
>
>
>
>
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- Carsten