On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue. > > Changes since 1.99.2: > > - All D-Bus prop names capitalized as per general conventions. > - Expose D-Bus specification XML file in pkg-config file. > - Fix some potential crashes in error handling code. > - Remove unused build-time yelp dependency. > - Correct the libsoup dependency in pkg-config (although it doesn't affect any > applications at the moment). > - Fix some compiler warnings. > > All contributors to this release: > > Evgeny Bobkin <[email protected]> > Guillaume Desmottes <[email protected]> > Kalev Lember <[email protected]> > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <[email protected]> > --------------------------------------- > > Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The > primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware > applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to > ensure that no application can access location information without > explicit permission from user. > > Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU GPLv2+. It is developed for > Linux. > > The aim of project is to utilize all possible sources of geolocation > to best find user's location: > > * WiFi-based geolocation (accuracy: in meters) > * GPS(A) receivers (accuracy: in centimeters) > * 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS) > * GeoIP (accuracy: city-level) > * Geoclue can currently only do GeoIP and hence accuracy of > geolocation is city-level at best. However, there are plans to add > support for other sources mentioned above. > > Geoclue used to also do (reverse-)geocoding but that functionality has > been dropped in favor of geocode-glib library. > > However project is in the early stages of development and hence > lacking essential features. Currently it can only determine your > location based on your IP (i-e city-level accuracy) and does not have > any permission control. > > Release tarball: > http://people.freedesktop.org/~zeenix/releases/geoclue-1.99.3.tar.xz
Better download from the more canonical location actually: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/1.99/geoclue-1.99.3.tar.xz -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
