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What is Localizer?

Localizer allows you to organize your visits to congresses, cities, fairs, etc. by displaying everything in a nice view that you can scroll, zoom, search, etc.

For example, suppose that you are in a congress with thousands of companies, and you are just interested on 20 or perhaps 30 of them, you can easily search for them in the search dialog of Localizer and mark them so that they're highlighted in the map and you can easily plan the shortest path to view them all.

Then, you look in the search dialog for presentations and see that company A is doing a presentation on a topic that you're interested in, or perhaps someone you know is giving a presentation you don't want to miss. No problem, just set an alarm so that Localizer notifies you ten minutes earlier, and you have time to go where the presentation is. How ? You are not sure where the presentation is ? No problem, just click on the "Go" button and Localizer will show you the place.

Now suppose you've walked a lot and you're tired and hungry, you want something to eat. Let's say you want to have a Pizza, just open the search dialog of Localizer, select "Nutrition" and click on the advanced search button (the one with the suspension points), click on "Pizza" and you'll be presented a list of places where you can have pizza. The problem is that we said you were tired, so you don't want to walk a lot to have it. What do we do? Easy, just return to the map and select the "Set your position" mode (the icon with the footsteps and the arrows pointing at them), click on the position where you are in the map, and repeat the steps above to search for pizza. Then click on the column named "distance" and the places where you can have pizza will be sorted from nearest to farthest. Mark the nearest one and when you double click on it, select "Go" to make Localizer show you where it is. After that, you can even click on "Go To Your Position" and Localizer will paint an arrow pointing to the direction you have to go. Just pan around the map as you walk through the stands and the arrow will always point you to the right direction.

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About the examples included

The names of the persons and companies in the first example have been created randomly. The stands/hall layout was taken from an important exhibition celebrated in Amsterdam in 2001.

The names of companies and projects for the stands in the second example have been taken from the Linux world and the stands layout was made up.

The first time Localizer is run the example files will be added to your Documents and they will be modified so that the date of the presentations are set to about one hour and a half after that time. This means that if you run Localizer and then continue viewing it another day, the presentations will have happened. To set the alarms again, you'll have to edit the configuration file of Localizer (usually ~/Settings/Localizer) and change firstRun to 1.

The photographs of the example 4 (the map of Málaga) take 2.5 Mb . That means that the ipk file for Localizer could take as little as 160 Kb, as maps (as well as examples) should be included in separate ipk files, but I preferred to include everything in one big ipk file for the contest.

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