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  1. Bug #1100326
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 1100326

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In , Zan-f (zan-f) wrote :

(In reply to comment #2)
> (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).

This makes much sense, thanks for clearing it up.