Re: Geoclue needs your help!

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl> wrote:
> 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

There is a very good reason they don't let you download it:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/FAQ#Can_I_download_the_entire_raw_database.3F

In short, the data isn't exactly theirs to give away freely.

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

None of the software is closed or proprietary. Its all availlable and
developed in open like a real free software:

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea
https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler

Moreover, you can easily create a service based on their service that
gives out data to everyone if you wish so but I don't see GNOME
needing to do so.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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