- From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:47:54 +0100
- To: "Erik Wilde" <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Cc: public-geolocation@w3.org, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
Hi Erik, Thanks for the comments! On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> wrote: > > time to get the geolocation API to the point where it's not just a GPS API. > if it should just be a GPS API (and right now it is just this), it should be > called GPS API. if it shall be a geolocation API, it should not just focus > on GPS. Please note that there is absolutely nothing specific to GPS in the current spec. > if i can use geolocation in a way that > matches human categories, i have better privacy, but can also much better > make sense of location on a social level. > 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. Thanks, Andrei
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