1 February 2008
LocationAware.org - Updated Working Draft
Posted by Ryan Sarver under: Business .
I haven’t posted much yet about LocationAware — but since we have spent some more time on it recently I thought now is as good a time as any. Especially since Doug Turner, Brad Lassey and I were able to make some headway this week. We have updated the Working Draft on the wiki. If you are interested in the geoweb, please check it out and provide any and all feedback via our mailing list.
LocationAware.org is a “working group” formed around the common goal of standardizing the way that geolocation information gets exposed through a browser. Currently we are focusing on DOM APIs to allow that to happen, but really the goal is location-aware browsing, so other methods in other environments may work as well.
Initially we are trying to work with various browser vendors to have them act as a broker of location information — such as GPS, Wi-Fi Positioning and IP Geolocation — from the device they reside on. By making this information available to web developers and content owners more compelling and relevant experience will hopefully arise.
