Re: Geoclue needs your help!

[Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>]

Thanks for your work!
I think you should write a blog post about this to get wider coverage.

On 01/24/2014 03:06 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> Hi all,
>   As some of you might have heard, last week I added a
> wifi-geolocation source to geoclue. I'm working on also adding 3G and
> GPS sources but with GNOME running on mostly laptops, most people wont
> have the needed hardware for these sources. Also is the fact that
> laptops are usually used indoor and I'm not yet sure when we will have
> GPSA support. Keeping all this in mind and that our geiop source
> typically gives us city-level accuracy, this wifi-geolocation source
> is the most important one.
>
> 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.
>
> Have a nice weekend!