Yes a big thanks goes out to kev and fritz for creating sleekxmpp and sleekbot, the best modular python api for xmpp, on which this is all based, and for providing support when I got stuck with it a few times.

Astro,

This project (World of Jabber) has just begun, and is still in testing stages, Jobble and Ralph’s maps are obviously much more mature projects. And in fact it was Jobble that directly inspired me to do this. Unfortunately, contrary to their claims it’s not really “fully automated”, I found after I signed up with them, that I still had to goto their site and manually update my presence. World of Jabber is an attempt to make this a truly automated process, whereby the presence information is gleaned from your own profile ‘vCard’, and in future via the geoloc features mentioned in the XEP’s above.