Geoclue 2.1.3



Hi,

Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue. Changes since 2.1.2:

- Agents can now dictate maximum accuracy level allowed for all clients through
  a D-Bus property. The next version of gnome-shell will make use of that and
  provide an option to enable/disable geolocation in topbar menu.
- Add D-Bus property to specify available accuracy level. For now we just
  hardcode it to report that we can provide exact accuracy.
- Give agents time to register themselves on startup before processing client
  requests.
- Move configuration file under geoclue subdir so that in future we can easily
  add more configuration files if needed.
- Fixes to build.
- Some internal clean-ups.

All contributors to this release:

Colin Walters <walters verbum org>
Marvin Schmidt <marv exherbo org>
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.

Release tarball:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/2.1/geoclue-2.1.3.tar.xz
sha256sum: 76f17b587275fe2c23ff41812b085305b5cefe4c8676d00b25e1a1481001d02b

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

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124


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