gnome-maps Geoclue 1.99.2

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

Hi,

Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue. Changes since 1.99.1:

- Drop client-side library.
- Add COPYING file.
- Install geoip-lookup with make install. This makes life easier for binary
  distributions that can then ship geoip-lookup in a package.
- Distribute server documentation.
- Distribute & install interface XML file.
- Add/update forgotten copyright headers.

All contributors to this release:

Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>
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Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The
primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware
applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to
ensure that no application can access location information without
explicit permission from user.

Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU GPLv2+. It is developed for Linux.

The aim of project is to utilize all possible sources of geolocation
to best find user's location:

* WiFi-based geolocation (accuracy: in meters)
* GPS(A) receivers (accuracy: in centimeters)
* 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS)
* GeoIP (accuracy: city-level)
* Geoclue can currently only do GeoIP and hence accuracy of
geolocation is city-level at best. However, there are plans to add
support for other sources mentioned above.

Geoclue used to also do (reverse-)geocoding but that functionality has
been dropped in favor of geocode-glib library.

However project is in the early stages of development and hence
lacking essential features. Currently it can only determine your
location based on your IP (i-e city-level accuracy) and does not have
any permission control.

Release tarball:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~zeenix/releases/geoclue-1.99.2.tar.xz
sha256sum: bbde33254bf35a13b1982f5357a0df61e73111aba8e0d799e17e2a9108754390

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124