news 28 Posted August 1, 2013 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 -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue/ _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
