Understanding geolocation. Milo Casagrande milo@ubuntu.com

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What is geolocation

Geolocation allows you to identify the real geographical location of a computer or a device connected to the Internet.

With geolocation in Empathy you can:

Publish your geographical location to your contacts.

See your contacts’ geographical location and quickly contact them.

Set the accuracy of your location and the device used to discover your location.

In order to see your contacts’ geographical locations, they need to use a service and an application that supports geolocation.