python-geoclue

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> While looking at the current state of GeoClue I ran into the
> python-geoclue module that is a result of Getting Things GNOME GSoC
> 2009 project:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/gtg/soc/python_geoclue
> Docs: http://www.paulocabido.com/soc/python-geoclue/docs/
>
> Seems to work reasonably well with geoclue 0.11.1 that ships with Ubuntu Karmic:
>
>  import Geoclue
>  location = Geoclue.DiscoverLocation()
>  location.init()
>  location.set_position_provider("Plazes")
>  position = location.get_location_info()
>  print location.reverse_position(position['latitude'],
> position['longitude'], 4)
>
> I wonder, should we try to ensure distros shipping GeoClue also ship
> this library?

Just a FYI that this will be on its way to Fedora 11->14 shortly. Its
been approved, I'm just awaiting the cvs access so I can push it.

Peter