Hi,

Hanno from Mozilla's Location Service (MLS) here.

Are you still interested in using MLS for iceweasel? Any questions you have on 
this?

Technically I can issue you a new API key. You then need to then add this 
during the configure stage of the build process and change the default 
geo.wifi.uri preference to:

https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=%MOZILLA_API_KEY%

Not quite sure how exactly you configure things, but you can add a 
"ac_add_options" to the mozconfigs with something like:

ac_add_options --with-mozilla-api-keyfile=/path/to/mozilla-geoloc-api.key

Where the file contents are the key (a new uuid I'll generate and send you). An 
example mozconfig is at 
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/config/mozconfigs/linux64/common-opt

This procedure will work in Firefox 38 and later. In earlier desktop versions, 
we didn't yet hook up the API key system.

For open-source projects we understand that it might not be possible to keep 
this key secret, but that it has to be checked into a public source control 
system. That's ok, we just need the ability to issue a new key should the old 
one get abused. The key concept is a bit of an annoyance, but is a legal 
requirement we get from using some partner services.

As to the quality aspect, we are starting to get much better with MLS. Today 
MLS is used by default by our Firefox Nightly and Developer Edition channels. 
It's also been used since last year by Fedora's Firefox package in addition to 
none-browser projects like Gnome's geoclue library and the KDE desktop.

If you have further questions, feel free to discuss here, mail me in private or 
contact us over at https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation

Cheers,
Hanno

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