Geoclue 2.4.4

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Hi,

 

Here is another release of Geoclue. Changes since 2.4.3:

 

- Expose location timestamp over D-Bus.

- Add a TimeThreshold property that allows clients to limit location updates by

time.

- Annotate default value of DistanceThreshold property.

- Check for full internet availability before declaring ourselves online.

- Fix autogen.sh against builddir ≠ srcdir.

- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.

- Fix a bunch of build issues.

- Other minor fixes.

 

Colin Walters

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort

Justin Kim

Philip Withnall

Ting-Wei Lan

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

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Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The

primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware

applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to

ensure that no application can access location information without

explicit permission from user.

 

Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU GPLv2+. It is developed for Linux.

 

The aim of project is to utilize all possible sources of geolocation

to best find user's location:

 

* WiFi-based geolocation (accuracy: in meters)

* GPS(A) receivers (accuracy: in centimeters)

* GPS of other devices on the local network, e.g smartphones

(accuracy: in centimeters)

* 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS)

* GeoIP (accuracy: city-level)

 

Geoclue used to also do (reverse-)geocoding but that functionality has

been dropped in favor of geocode-glib library.

 

Release tarball:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/2.4/geoclue-2.4.4.tar.xz

sha256sum: 9fe8efa1326184fe5e5388b5ec20050475b26e858f6688696775cc400dbf76cd

 

D-Bus API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/

Library API documentation:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/libgeoclue/

 

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali

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