GeoClue 2.3.0 available

Hi,



Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue. Changes since 2.2.0:



- Add a network NMEA source, which together with this application:

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GeoclueShare

  allows you to use the GPS of your Android device on your

geoclue-enabled machine.

- Allow root to own the name on the bus, i-e run the service.

- Make use of compass device if available, through iio-proxy.

- Fix a hang on client starting twice.

- More helpful error on agent rejection.

- Improved documentation.

- Do not ship generated D-Bus service files in the tarball.

- Only allow the geoclue user and root to call methods on agents.

- Fix ignoring of valid location updates due to comparison of distances in

  different units.

- Correctly handle two consecutive location updates with same timestamp on them.

- Correctly handle late location update.

- Build system fixes:

  - Fix detection of gdbus-codegen tool.

  - Workaround an intltool issue.



All contributors to this release:



Ankit <ankitstarski@gmail.com>

Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>

Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info>

Laurent Bigonville <bigon@bigon.be>

Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk>

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)

* 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.



Release tarball:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/2.3/...
sha256sum: 5d17a3fc275c1437b75f937643eca64857b98b9275e7581c9379eb37f2c7bc26



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



-- 

Regards,



Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

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