[gnome-devel-docs] new-platform-overview: Fix the Geographical information section
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-devel-docs] new-platform-overview: Fix the Geographical information section
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:14 +0000 (UTC)
commit 01dd689ad3ed85b97322635750b365ba7e64161c
Author: Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>
Date: Tue Jun 18 14:22:00 2013 -0500
new-platform-overview: Fix the Geographical information section
Add back geocode-glib; fix the description of what geoclue2 does.
Based on this blog post: http://www.hadess.net/2013/04/geocluing-desktop-slowly.html
new-platform-overview/tech-geoclue2.page | 23 ++++++++++++---------
new-platform-overview/tech-geocode-glib.page | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
new-platform-overview/tech.page | 4 +-
3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/new-platform-overview/tech-geoclue2.page b/new-platform-overview/tech-geoclue2.page
index fb52576..dd7460f 100644
--- a/new-platform-overview/tech-geoclue2.page
+++ b/new-platform-overview/tech-geoclue2.page
@@ -3,25 +3,28 @@
id="geoclue2">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="tech" group="geoclue2"/>
- <desc>Geocoding and reverse geocoding</desc>
+ <desc>Geolocation - finding the user's geographical location</desc>
</info>
<title>Geoclue2</title>
<p>
- Geoclue2 provides <em>geocoding</em> and <em>reverse geocoding</em>.
- Geocoding is the process of translating an address ("123 High Street,
- SomeTown, SomeCountry") to a pair of latitude/longitude values. Reverse
- geocoding is the opposite process.
+ Geoclue2 provides <em>geolocation</em> services, that is, it lets
+ applications find the user's geographical position. A mapping
+ application could use this to present a "where am I" view, for
+ example.
</p>
<p>
- Geoclue2 uses the Yahoo! Place Finder and GeoPlanet APIs internally to
- do its work.
+ Geoclue2 intends to be able to provide positioning information
+ in several ways: from the GPS in a WWAN modem, from a Wi-Fi
+ access point's data, or from the computer's IP address.
</p>
- <list style="compact">
- <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/geoclue/unstable/">Geoclue2 reference
documentation</link></p></item>
- </list>
+ <p>
+ Geoclue2 also intends to provide privacy for users who do not want
+ to reveal their geographical location. Only applications allowed
+ by the user will be able to get geolocation information.
+ </p>
</page>
diff --git a/new-platform-overview/tech-geocode-glib.page b/new-platform-overview/tech-geocode-glib.page
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2883bed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/new-platform-overview/tech-geocode-glib.page
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic"
+ id="geocode-glib">
+<info>
+ <link type="guide" xref="tech" group="geocode-glib"/>
+ <desc>Geocoding and reverse geocoding - conversion of street addresses to/from geographical
coordinates</desc>
+</info>
+
+<title>Geocode-glib</title>
+
+ <p>
+ Geocode-glib provides <em>geocoding</em> and <em>reverse geocoding</em>.
+ Geocoding is the process of translating an address ("123 High Street,
+ SomeTown, SomeCountry") to a pair of latitude/longitude values. Reverse
+ geocoding is the opposite process.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Geocode-glib uses the Yahoo! Place Finder API internally to
+ do its work. In the future it will support the free Nominatim
+ service and OpenStreetMap data.
+ </p>
+
+ <list style="compact">
+ <item><p><link href="https://developer.gnome.org/geocode-glib/unstable/index.html">Geocode-glib
reference documentation</link></p></item>
+ </list>
+
+</page>
diff --git a/new-platform-overview/tech.page b/new-platform-overview/tech.page
index c122b1c..b6799d8 100644
--- a/new-platform-overview/tech.page
+++ b/new-platform-overview/tech.page
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ list of all the platform libraries in GNOME, sorted by purpose.</p>
<links type="topic"
style="linklist"
- groups="champlain geoclue2">
- <title>Geographcal</title>
+ groups="champlain geoclue2 geocode-glib">
+ <title>Geographical</title>
</links>
<links type="topic"
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