Re: Geoclue 1.99.3

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

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue.
>
> Changes since 1.99.2:
>
> - All D-Bus prop names capitalized as per general conventions.
> - Expose D-Bus specification XML file in pkg-config file.
> - Fix some potential crashes in error handling code.
> - Remove unused build-time yelp dependency.
> - Correct the libsoup dependency in pkg-config (although it doesn't affect any
>   applications at the moment).
> - Fix some compiler warnings.
>
> All contributors to this release:
>
> Evgeny Bobkin <evgen ibqn gmail com>
> Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume desmottes collabora co uk>
> Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> 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-1.99.3.tar.xz

Better download from the more canonical location actually:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/1.99/geoclue-1.99.3.tar.xz


-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124