On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:06:09PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > 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.
Mozilla works one way with this Location Service. They do collect data, but don't allow downloading them back: http://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/120952.html I don't think GNOME should encourage contributions to such closed, proprietary service. -- Tomasz Torcz Only gods can safely risk perfection, xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl it's a dangerous thing for a man. -- Alia _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
