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Development of new Openhanced Location Starter Kit (hosted), now named Location Based Content Management System
Posted in: Android, Augmented Reality, Blog, LBS, OH-LBCMS, Open Source by openhanced on April 30, 2010
After releasing the OHLSK (Openhanced Location Starter Kit) we got very positive feedback and some people asked me the following:
- will you support multiple Layars in one install;
- will there be a hosted version available;
- 2d/3d;
- etc.
First thing we decided is to change the name from OHLSK to OH-LBCMS. The end goal is to build a multi purpose Location Based Content Management System that could provide a location store (multimedia included) for applications like:
- Layar;
- Junaoi;
- Mixare;
- Barcode scanners for product searches (can be used by museum);
- Simple vehicle tracking;
- Any other location based application.
In essence many of these applications need the same functionality on the backend and we are planning to provide them. It is not our goal to provide a massive location solution like SimpleGEO does, if you need to store millions of POI’s please look around somewhere else. It is our aim to target for the power users that want to click together very hyper local location solutions (one city or even an attraction park).
One option that we are investigating is to use our system as a frontend to SimpleGEO, that would be a good option. SimpleGEO would handle the realtime retrieval of POI’s and the OH-LBCMS would be the frontend to manage all the POI’s.
Another idea we have is to hookup special mobile pages (based on the excellent jQTouch framework by David Kaneda) to for example Layar or Junaoi actions. Below you see a sample of something we have created before (in English, sorry):
These mobile pages are natively rendered to either iPhone or Android and can contain specific functionality. Most of this is done by HTMl5, jQuery and CSS.
Planning
We aim for having an online version up and running around end of May. This will probably not have the 2d/3d functionality but it will be capable of registering multiple data layers.
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