[needs-packaging] GeoClue - GIS Geospatial Information Service and API using D-Bus
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Feisty Backports |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Ubuntu Mobile Edition |
New
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Undecided
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Debian |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
URL:
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Description:
GeoClue - The Geoinformation Service
Geoclue is a modular geoinformation service built on top of the D-Bus messaging system. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.
Geoclue is developed for Linux, but should be portable to any platform that uses D-Bus.
Geoclue defines a set of geoinformation APIs, but it also includes some providers that implement those APIs. Here is a list of services provided through Geoclue with the currently included implementations:
a) Position
gpsd, gypsy, hostip, plazes, gsmloc
b) Address
hostip, plazes, manual, localnet
c) Velocity
gpsd, gypsy
d) Geocode
geonames, yahoo
e) ReverseGeocode
geonames
Geoclue source code contains:
* D-Bus definitions for the above APIs
* C bindings for Geoclue clients
* C bindings for data providers
* a set of provider implementations
* (experimental) master provider implementation.
Possible data sources
* Google Maps Geocoding API -- License says "only for showing places on Google Maps"
* Wigle.net-- WIFI location database (10 million networks). License requires users to login.
* geocoder.us -- geocoder for the USA (TIGER data)
* gsmloc-provider could easily get the GSM information using AT commands on the OpenMoko platform
* We really should have a free network location database (like gsmloc.org, but for WLAN, GSM, BT, ethernet gateway, ..
o What about opencellid?
License:
Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU LGPL.
Changed in feisty-backports: | |
status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
Not packaged, so too early to request a backport.