Hi all, As some of you might have heard, last week I added a wifi-geolocation source to geoclue. I'm working on also adding 3G and GPS sources but with GNOME running on mostly laptops, most people wont have the needed hardware for these sources. Also is the fact that laptops are usually used indoor and I'm not yet sure when we will have GPSA support. Keeping all this in mind and that our geiop source typically gives us city-level accuracy, this wifi-geolocation source is the most important one.
The source makes use of the new Mozilla Location Service[1] and that being very new, does not have a lot of coverage. The good news is that they provide a web API and an android application to allow people to help them extend their coverage: Mozstumblr. I talked to our designers briefly about having a similar service/app in GNOME to be able to contribute data from GNOME itself as well but lack of GPS hardware makes it rather not that useful in the end. So what I would really appreciate is for you nice folks to consider installing Mozstumblr on your android phones (if you have one, that is) and make our geolocation framework work as well as we all want it to. Have a nice weekend! -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/About [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/About#How_can_I_get_involved.3F _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list