Geoclue 2.1.3

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Hi,

 

Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue. Changes since 2.1.2:

 

- Agents can now dictate maximum accuracy level allowed for all clients through

a D-Bus property. The next version of gnome-shell will make use of that and

provide an option to enable/disable geolocation in topbar menu.

- Add D-Bus property to specify available accuracy level. For now we just

hardcode it to report that we can provide exact accuracy.

- Give agents time to register themselves on startup before processing client

requests.

- Move configuration file under geoclue subdir so that in future we can easily

add more configuration files if needed.

- Fixes to build.

- Some internal clean-ups.

 

All contributors to this release:

 

Colin Walters

Marvin Schmidt

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)

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

* GeoIP (accuracy: city-level)

* Geoclue can currently only do GeoIP and hence accuracy of

geolocation is city-level at best. However, there are plans to add

support for other sources mentioned above.

 

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/2.1/geoclue-2.1.3.tar.xz

sha256sum: 76f17b587275fe2c23ff41812b085305b5cefe4c8676d00b25e1a1481001d02b

 

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

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

FSF member#5124

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