Laptops usually don't contain a GPS and indoor it's getting hard to get a location even with wifi references. To improve accuracy while saving energy a different approach might be useful: At this usecase a user might want to setup an private catalog of locations and activate them manually or automatically by inspecting the connected wifi / network preferences as MACs, ... This is what dynstatus does already: https://github.com/ekeih/dynstatus It might be useful to cooperate on an unified solution and integration with network-managers etc?
While you can use geoclue-share (if you wired network and your wifi are the same logical network) to get a GPS lock on you desktop machines: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GeoclueShare We probably should be providing a simple mechanism like this cause GeoIP database is so wrong in so many cases and not all wired networks are accompanies with WiFi.
Thanks for your reply. Using another device to get the location isn't my usecase. I think on just an ordinary non-stationary PC and a manual way to 'checkin' to a custom list of locations?
(In reply to digi_c from comment #2) > Thanks for your reply. > > Using another device to get the location isn't my usecase. "Another device" is a method, not a use-case. The usecase is simply to get your correct location and if you do not have the opportunity to make use of your android phone (or if you don't even have one) to do that, we need to think about adding this manual control as a last fallback.
I think the manual control will be just a simple configuration, covered in bug#96861. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96861 ***
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