The mission of the Geolocation Working Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity, is to define a secure and privacy-sensitive interface for using client-side location information in location-aware Web applications. The Working Group meets weekly by phone and has three to four Face-to-Face meetings per year.
The Geolocation Working Group Charter details what the W3C has tasked this Working Group to do.
Members should join the Geolocation Working Group.
| Note: This table will be updated periodically as the Working Group identifies new milestones. | |||||
| Specification | FPWD | LC | CR | PR | Rec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geolocation Interface | Q4 2008 | Q1 2009 | Q3 2010 | Q2 2011 | Q4 2011 |
| DeviceOrientation Event Specification | Q2 2011 | Q3 2011 | Q4 2011 | Q1 2012 | Q1 2012 |
The Geolocation Working Group published the Candidate Recommendation Working Draft of the Geolocation API on 07 September 2010:
Ongoing work is reflected in the public editor's draft:
A preliminary test suite is also available:
In addition, the WG has been working on the following Editor's Drafts:
Members should join the Geolocation Working Group, but we do our work in the public, mainly on the mailing lists.
The main mailing list for the Geolocation Working Group is: public-geolocation@w3.org.
This list is open to the public and also has a public
archive. To subscribe or unsubscribe please send mail to
public-geolocation-request@w3.org with a subject line of
subscribe or unsubscribe.
There is also an IRC channel dedicated to the Geolocation Working
Group: #geolocation on the W3C IRC server:
irc.w3.org:6665
In addition there is a member-only mailing list at member-geolocation@w3.org for administrative purposes. This list also has a member-only archive.
The Working Group maintains a Wiki with links to minutes from Face-to-Face meetings and teleconferences. In addition the group uses Tracker to maintain issue and action item lists.
As listed in the Geolocation Working Group Charter, it is expected that we will be interacting with the following W3C Working Groups.