GeoClue: The Geolocation Service

Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.

Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU GPLv2+. It is developed for Linux.

The aim of project is to utilize all possible sources of geolocation to best find user's location:

• WiFi-based geolocation (accuracy: in meters)
• GPS(A) receivers (accuracy: in centimeters)
• GPS of other devices on the local network, e.g smartphones (accuracy: in centimeters)
• 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS)[li]GeoIP (accuracy: city-level)

apt-get purge geoclue-2.0
echo '' >> /etc/apt/preferences
echo 'Package: geoclue-2.0' >> /etc/apt/preferences
echo 'Pin: origin ""' >> /etc/apt/preferences
echo 'Pin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences