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Re: Location providers and competition

From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:32:00 -0700
Cc: "Erik Wilde" <dret@berkeley.edu>, public-geolocation@w3.org, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
Message-Id: <628E3904-126B-44DF-9F99-C7522F4DB7EC@gmail.com>
To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>


> If I remember right, this issue has been discussed before in quite
> some detail and the decision was to stay with the current design:
> providing a simple API for retrieving geographic coordinates.

I agree with Andrei.  We should leave selection of the geolocation  
provider up to the UA.

Regards,
Doug Turner

Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:32:37 GMT

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