On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Jussi Kukkonen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jku@linux.intel.com">jku@linux.intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">arno wrote:<br>
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The basic needs are:<br>
1. We want to let users define their location manually, possibly from<br>
several applications<br>
2. This manual input must be able to override other sources<br>
(so users can correct wrong location info)<br>
3. we should "save" this manual info for later use<br>
(based on MAC address, possibly other things)<br>
4. saved info must be easily modified/erased<br>
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I can see two other needs:<br>
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* have a default position, which does not depend on the gateway or anything else. Ie: user wants its software to believe he is in position XY no matter where he really is.<br>
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Hmm, I guess. I'm not convinced this sort of functionality should live in "localnet" though (see below)<div class="im"><br>
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* set an accuracy: so user can tell: I'm not further than xx meters or kilometers from position XY.<br>
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The Position input does need an accuracy, absolutely. With Address the accuracy is pretty much implied...<div class="im"><br>
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I'm thinking here about web geolocation where websites can ask for location. For privacy reason, user may wish to give a wrong position or an inaccurate one.<br>
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I see your point. I still think this "lying" should probably happen in the application that sends the data to the web or if need be in a separate "fake-location" provider. Most likely it would be in the application: you wouldn't want your other position-reliant applications to get confused when you're telling your twitter buddies you're in Bermuda :)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I think a 'default' location provider would be a very useful feature. This would allow the user to set or store a default location whether than be their home, work address or some random location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We could possibly have the option to set/store/retrieve that information from the 'about me' app in gnome/kde/random desktop through e-d-s so its easy to find and set and then possible fall back to a .config file for the user or similar.<br>
<br>Peter<br></div></div>