Re: GeoClue project started at Boston Summit 2006

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz>]

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

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