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Geoclue 2.4.7

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Hi,

 

Here is another release of Geoclue. Changes since 2.4.6:

 

- Fix a potential crash.

- More verbose warning on invalid accuracy from NMEA source.

 

Release tarball:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/2.4/geoclue-2.4.7.tar.xz

sha256sum: d17b96bb5799a84723385ea5704235565e9c3dedd2b7afac475a06e550ae0ea6

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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)

* GPS of other devices on the local network, e.g smartphones

(accuracy: in centimeters)

* 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS)

* GeoIP (accuracy: city-level)

 

Geoclue used to also do (reverse-)geocoding but that functionality has

been dropped in favor of geocode-glib library.

 

D-Bus API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/

Library API documentation:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/libgeoclue/

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali

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