[Marble-devel] Fwd: Introducing Geoclue2

[John Layt]

FYI, Gnome is re-writing GeoClue and is asking for input on how it can
work better.  Looks like they want to rationalise it to be a
positioning service only and leave things like geocoding to direct use
of web api's (or at least that's how I read it, the blog is a little
confusing).

John.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
Date: 31 July 2013 01:31
Subject: Introducing Geoclue2
To: maps-list at gnome.org, geoclue at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org


Hi,

Here is the first release of the re-write of geoclue[1]. The plan is
to use various sources to determine your location as best as possible:

* GPS(A) receiver
* 3G modem
* Wi-Fi-based positioning system
* IP address geolocation

Unlike geoclue, the plan is to

a. have one simple D-Bus service that abstracts all geolocation
backends rather than a collection of services.
b. give users control over which applications they want to allow
knowing their location.

However project is in the early stages of development and hence
lacking essential features. Currently it can only determine your
location based on your IP (i-e city-level accuracy) and does not have
any permission control.

More on rationale for the re-write here:
http://www.hadess.net/2013/04/geocluing-desktop-slowly.html

Geoclue is licensed under GNU LGPLv2+.

Release tarball:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~zeenix/releases/geoclue-0.0.1.tar.xz
sha256sum: 59178218c2d4b44d5df503c3ceeac4829339f53e2e1285b76a16211ad4910a1a

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue/
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