Hi,
Here is another release of Geoclue. Changes since 2.5.2:
- Fix a crash.
- Support for GGA messages from more NMEA sources.
- New API to allow automatic server side deletion of client.
- Automatically delete client on server when using GClueSimple.
- Avoid linking to system-installed library.
- Fix library-only build.
- Add manpage for geoclue.conf file.
- Document usage and building of the project.
- Other fixes and improvements.
Contributors:
Benjamin Berg <
bberg redhat com>
Inzamam <
inzamam 15 cse mrt ac lk>
Sachin Chand <
schand1997 gmail com>
Sumera Priyadarsini <
sylphrenadin gmail com>
Zeeshan Ali <
zeeshanak gnome org>
Release tarball:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/archive/2.5.3/geoclue-2.5.3.tar.bz2sha256sum: a626f6adaff15d88fd0561344e614e371900e4a64a1fe9ddfcdd40d39712e78b
---------------------------------------
Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.
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/