RE: Indoor API in new charter?

There already has been a specific Android class extension for indoor location in existence:  https://developer.qualcomm.com/docs/snapdragon-sdk/reference-api/com/qualcomm/snapdragon/sdk/location/QCLocationManager.html.  

-Giri

-----Original Message-----
From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux [mailto:dom@w3.org] 
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:54 AM
To: public-geolocation@w3.org
Subject: Indoor API in new charter?

Hi,

The proposed new charter for the group currently has a deliverable for indoor location:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2013Nov/att-0003/Proposed_Geolocation_Working_Group_Charter.htm#deliverables


During discussions last week in TPAC, there was unclarity on:
* whether indoor location needed anything special in the API (i.e. only required browsers to use whatever location technology is available
indoors)

* if it did, whether there was sufficient experience with these specificities to proceed with standardization; for instance, there doesn't seem be to an official iOS or Android indoor location API

I would be interested in getting views on these two considerations.

If any of the two is confirmed, I think including indoor location in the new charter as a Rec-track deliverable is probably premature; in which case, I would suggest we keep the topic on, but as "use case and requirements" deliverable, rather than for an API.

Thanks,

Dom

Received on Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:28:48 UTC