Informative links

Wikipedia terms and some other definitions

• Location awareness

• Geolocation software

• Geographic information system

• Geocoding

• Geotagging

• Geo targeting

Geoclue & related

• GeoClue

• plazes

• Hostip : IP Address Lookup and GeoTargeting.

• OpenCellID : Open source project, that aimes to create a complete database of CellID worlwide, with their locations.

• Gypsy - A GPS Multiplexing Daemon

• Inferring context from the environment

• Geoclue state of the map 2007

• Geoclue Reference Manual

• geoclue-properties

libchamplain & related

• libchamplain

• Eye Of GNOME Map Plugin : Uses libchamplain to show the geolocation (via geotagging) of the image on a map.

• A Empathy implementation of contact location on a map using the map widget provided by libchamplain (patches for Empathy).

python-dbus

• dbus-python tutorial

python plug-in frameworks

• A simple plug-in framework that was designed specifically to support plug-ins with no external dependencies.

• Extensible Application Framework.

• A library to assist you in making your applications easily support plugins.

• setuptools

• The Twisted Plugin System

• A example of a application using plug-ins.

• Ethos is a plugin framework that is written in C using the GLib and GObject libraries. Python bindings are also available.

• Exaile

• Gedit Python plugin howto.