Thanks for your work! I think you should write a blog post about this to get wider coverage.
On 01/24/2014 03:06 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > 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! > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
