This ROADIDEA demonstration project shows how ROADIDEA became location aware. For this we use the recently published
Geolocation API by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
You can access the Point Rainfall Prediction for Holland demo if you have a device with an internet browser that supports the Geolocation API, such as Windows mobile phones, PC and laptops. If you do not have this, you need to install for example
Google gears. Note that we can only provide rainfall prediction in Holland; outside that you get your location and the accuracy.
You can use devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, laptops and PCs. The location information available from the device is used to report the position and accuracy and get the point rainfall forecast from KNMI data. Location information is obtained through IP address / Wi-Fi address / Bluetooth MAC address, RFID, Wi-Fi connection location, or device GPS or GSM/CDMA cell IDs.
For more background information you can download the
ROADIDEA slide show on this topic.
To open a link to the Point Rainfall Prediction Demo, click one of the examples below:
Point Rainfall Prediction on PC Point Rainfall Prediction on Mobile Phone