On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:07:33PM +0300, Kuosmanen Tuomas (Nokia-M/Helsinki) wrote: > Goal: To make the concept of geographical location as common and useful > as the current time. > > GeoClue is a project that provide all kinds of geography information to > an application. This is through a very abstract DBus interface in which > a variety of backends can be used to provide this implementation. > (ip-based geographical mapping, gps, etcetera..) Although we implement a > few reference backends, creating your own is encouraged. > > Use cases: There are many. For example: > * A blog post could be tagged with location.. The planet.gnome.org > "hacker map" could show a huge swarm of bees in Birmingham > during the next guadec...! > * The weather applet could always show your current weather, > without having to be reconfigured. > * Your computer could get its timezone set automatically. > * Etc etc.. Lots of possibilities. > > There's a wiki page here: http://live.gnome.org/GeoClue and we have an > ad-hoc irc channel on irc.gimp.org, #geoclue - and there's even code > (that probably wont quite yet work, but will soon) in > http://svn.foinse-project.org/geoclue/trunk/ > > Cheers, > > //Tuomas
And what about privacy? Hopefully this would be disabled by default... Petr Tomasek -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
