I had a chat today w/ Craig Andrews & Chris Vollick about StatusNet’s geolocation support and how we might be able to better present how location info will be used, to avoid freaking people out with unexpected maps to their homes. :)
Some notes and this mockup for expanded location setup in preferences are on the wiki.
The main points are:
- provide context for the browser’s location lookup opt-in (don’t trigger it until you’re poking at your location options)
- show a sample map in the prefs so you know what other people will see
- provide a one-click way to disable browser location lookups entirely
- provide a one-click way to reduce the accuracy to city-level, probably by default
Any thoughts?
Why not allow fire eagle integration? Fire eagle handles location accuracy by default. It already is a location broker. Thoughts? My 2p.
There’s some talk of that, yes…