[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 120185] Port to Geoclue2

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120185





--- Comment #2 from Zeeshan Ali <zeeshanak at gnome.org>  2013-08-23 04:52:32 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I see that the new API doesn't provide the altitude and the altitude accuracy information as compared to the old API - that's a shame, but any other information apart from latitude, longitude and the accuracy of those two is optional per the W3C spec[1], so that's OK really.

Oh the only reason we don't yet support those is that currently we only have IP-based geolocation and the only open geoip DB we know, doens't provide altitude info. :( We'll add those when we have the most accurate source: GPS(A).

> If you ever intend to expand the Geoclue interface and the API, we could also make use of the heading and speed information in addition to the altitude and the altitude accuracy :>

'heading' is already on the todo and 'speed; should be very much possible when we have heading but those only make sense for more precise/portable sources than geoip.

> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/

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