After careful consideration of the feedback received during the Working Draft review period, the Devices and Sensors Working Group has decided to publish this Geolocation Sensor specification as a Discontinued Draft. The Working Group acknowledges that there are still open issues and improvements that can be made to the specification, but given the limited resources available, it is not feasible to continue active development at this time. The Working Group encourages the community to continue contributing to the Background Geolocation use cases (at the w3c/geolocation repository for the geolocation specification) for consideration in future work. The Working Group remains committed to advancing web standards and will explore opportunities to revisit this specification in the future when resources permit. (Also see discussions at #62 (Background geofencing), #39 (Background geolocation and user privacy issues) or #60 for background.)
If you have any comment or suggestion, the Working Group welcomes any feedback email to
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This repository hosts the Geolocation Sensor specification.
Looking for an explainer? See the introduction and use cases.