Re: Geoclue needs your help!

[Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:06:09PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> 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.

  Mozilla works one way with this Location Service.  They do collect
data, but don't allow downloading them back:
http://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/120952.html

  I don't think GNOME should encourage contributions to such closed,
proprietary service.

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Tomasz Torcz                Only gods can safely risk perfection,
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