#Qaiku

• You can enable location features in Privacy Settings
• You can also specify how to share your location to different groups (your contacts, Qaiku users, Internet) on three different levels: Accurate location, approximate location and no location
• Once you enable them, Qaiku starts tracking your location
• If you have a geolocation-capable browser (Firefox 3.5, Mobile Safari, Fennec), Qaiku will automatically update location from it
• Otherwise you can type a city name in the location field and we will geocode it based on GeoNames database
• Once you type a manual location we will stop automatic location tracking until you re-enable it by clicking the Update location link under the map in your profile page
• Location is also available through API, following exactly same conventions as Twitter location API

Please note: if something doesn't work as specified above, feel free to send bug reports to me and @reisba

@bergie And how in m.qaiku and gps enabled smartphones?

@jal location tracking should work with smartphones capable of it (iPhone, N900 with Mobile Firefox) also on mdot, but seems to be disabled there at the moment. Ping @tomis

I typicall use Qaiku on my mobile phone (N95), or with my netbook that is connected to the net via bluetooth to the same N95, so there's hardly a chance my presense could be known by Qaiku.

If you're using the location features you can specify how the map looks like in your theme by choosing or creating a CloudMade skin. For example, I'm using map 998 "Pale Dawn".

The maps are coming from OpenStreetMap so their content is also editable.

@mace yes, that is a limitation on how Firefox does geolocation. They could get better location by using GeoClue instead of just depending on a proprietary WiFi location database.

But anyway, this is the reason why we'd like to support other location sources too. Firefox location is convenient but doesn't work in every situation.

@bergie When looking your profile I see my own location (or actually grey map and written "location"). Not your location.

ping to self

@jal yep, known issue. @reisba will hopefully fix it soon.

@bergie but hardly my netbook browser can ask my phone where it thinks it is... This is quite interesting rly.

The following geo features are in Qaiku API:

• When POSTing new Qaikus you can specify lat and long for coordinates and/or location for textual location
• Qaikus read through the API have a georss:point in XML or GeoJSON if you can see their location
• You can limit searches to an area with &geocode=lat,long,20km, see for example Qaikus about Midgard 5km from my home