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	<a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web</a>

	<h1>Geolocation Working Group</h1>
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<h4>On This Page →</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="#wg">Working Group Overview</a></li>
  <li><a href="#charter">Charter</a></li>
  <li><a href="#milestones">Milestones</a></li>

  <li><a href="#specs">Publications and Drafts</a></li>
  <li><a href="#participate">Participate</a></li>
  <li><a href="#other-wgs">Relationship with Other W3C Work</a></li>
  <li><a href="#contacts">Contacts</a></li>

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<h4 id="current">Current and Upcoming Events</h4>
<ul><li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-geolocation/2011Sep/0000.html">2011 F2F #2 in London</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/TPAC/">2011 F2F #3 at TPAC</a></li>
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<small><a href="/Member/Eventscal">&hellip; more W3C Events</a></small></div>
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<h2 id="wg">Geolocation Working Group Overview</h2>

<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the Geolocation Working
Group, part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity</a>, is to define a <strong>secure and
privacy-sensitive interface for using client-side location information in
location-aware Web applications</strong>. The Working Group meets weekly
by phone and has three to four Face-to-Face meetings per year.</p>
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<h2 id="charter">Charter</h2>
<p>The <a href="/2008/geolocation/charter/">Geolocation Working Group
Charter</a> details what the W3C has tasked this Working Group to do.</p>

<p>Members should <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42891/join">join the Geolocation
Working Group</a>.</p>

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<div id="milestones">
<h2>Milestones</h2>

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  <caption>Milestones</caption>
  <tfoot>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="6" rowspan="1">Note: This table will be updated
      periodically as the Working Group identifies new milestones.</td>
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      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Specification</th>
      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
        title="First Working Draft">FPWD</acronym></th>
      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
        title="Last Call Working Draft">LC</acronym></th>
      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
        title="Candidate Recommendation">CR</acronym></th>
      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
        title="Proposed Recommendation">PR</acronym></th>
      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
        title="Recommendation">Rec</acronym></th>
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      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Geolocation Interface</th>
      <td class="WD1" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-geolocation-API-20081222/">Q4 2008</a></td>
      <td class="LC" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-geolocation-API-20090707/">Q1 2009</a></td>
<td class="CR" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-geolocation-API-20100907/">Q3 2010</a></td>
      <td class="PR" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q2 2011</td>
      <td class="REC" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q4 2011</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">DeviceOrientation Event Specification</th>
      <td class="WD1" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q2 2011</td>
      <td class="LC" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q3 2011</td>
	<td class="CR" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q4 2011</td>
	<td class="PR" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q1 2012</td>
	<td class="REC" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Q1 2012</td>
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<h2 id="specs">Publications and Drafts</h2>

<p> The Geolocation Working Group published the Candidate Recommendation
Working Draft of the <strong>Geolocation API</strong> on 07 September 2010:
</p>
<dl>
	<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-geolocation-API-20100907/">Geolocation
		API Specification</a></dt>
	<dd>Candidate Recommendation, 07 September 2010</dd>
</dl>

<p>Ongoing work is reflected in the public editor's draft:</p>
<dl>
	<dt><a href="http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html">Geolocation
		API Specification</a></dt>
	<dd>Editor's Working Draft</dd>
</dl>

<p>A preliminary test suite is also available:</p>
<dl>
	<dt><a href="http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/test-suite/">Geolocation
		API Test Suite</a></dt>
</dl>
<p>In addition, the WG has been working on the following Editor's Drafts:</p>
<dl>
	<dt><a href="http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html">DeviceOrientation Event Specification</a></dt>
	<dt><a href="http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-v2">Geolocation API Level 2</a>
	</dt>
</dl>
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<h2 id="participate">How to Participate</h2>

<p>Members should <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42891/join">join the Geolocation
Working Group</a>, but we do our work in the public, mainly on the mailing
lists.</p>

<p>The main mailing list for the Geolocation Working Group is: <a
href="mailto:public-geolocation@w3.org">public-geolocation@w3.org</a>.
This list is open to the public and also has a <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/">public
archive</a>. To subscribe or unsubscribe please send mail to <a
href="mailto:public-geolocation-request@w3.org">
public-geolocation-request@w3.org </a> with a subject line of
<code>subscribe</code> or <code>unsubscribe</code>. </p>

<p>There is also an IRC channel dedicated to the Geolocation Working
Group: <code>#geolocation</code> on the W3C IRC server:
<code>irc.w3.org:6665</code></p>

<p>
In addition there is a <a
href="http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/AccessRequest">member-only</a>
mailing list at <a href="mailto:member-geolocation@w3.org">
member-geolocation@w3.org</a> for administrative purposes. This list also
has a <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-geolocation/">member-only
archive</a>. </p>

<p>The Working Group maintains a <a href="wiki/">Wiki</a> with links to minutes from Face-to-Face meetings and teleconferences.  In addition the group uses <a href="track/">Tracker</a> to maintain issue and action item lists.
</p>
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	<h2 id="other-wgs">Relationship with Other W3C Work</h2>
<p>As listed in the <a href="#charter">Geolocation Working Group
Charter</a>, it is expected that we will be interacting with the following
W3C Working Groups.</p>
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		<dt><a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Initiative Best
        Practices Working Group</a></dt>
		
		<dd>The Mobile Web Initiative Best Practices Working Group is
        responsible for developing best practices for the Web that support
        an appropriate user experience on mobile devices. It is expected
        that these experiences would benefit from a standardized
        Geolocation interface. </dd>
		
		<dt><a href="/2008/webapps/">Web Applications Working
        Group</a></dt>
		
		<dd>The Web Applications Working Group is responsible for core Web
        APIs, and thus may provide valuable feedback on our documents. We
        also expect an overlap in members with this WG.</dd>

		<dt><a href="/International/core/">Internationalization Core
        Working Group</a></dt>

    	<dd>There are a number of internationalization issues that we
        expect might need review and addressing.</dd>
		
	    <dt><a href="/2006/WSC/">Web Security Context Working Group</a></dt>
	
	 	<dd>The Web Security Context Working Group establishes practices
        for secure and usable information on the Web. Given the privacy
        and security concerns around location information, the Geolocation
        Working Group will be requesting feedback from the Web Security
        Context Working Group on a regular basis.</dd>


		<dt><a href="/MarkUp/CoordGroup/">Hypertext Coordination
        Group</a></dt>
		
		<dd>The Geolocation Working Group will participate in the
        Hypertext Coordination Group.</dd>
	  	
		<dt><a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a></dt>
		<dd>The Geolocation Working Group expects to work directly with
        the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group to
        ensure that any accessibility implications inherent to this work
        have been taken into account and addressed.</dd>

		<dt><a href="/2001/sw/interest/">Semantic Web Interest
        Group</a></dt>

		<dd>The Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) developed a <a
        href="/2003/01/geo/">Basic Geo Vocabulary</a>, which was
        ultimately handed over to <a
        href="/2005/Incubator/geo/">Geospatial Incubator Group</a>.</dd>

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<address>Lars Erik Bolstad, Co-Chair, Opera Software</address>
<address><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/all#mdw">Matt Womer</a> &lt;<a href="mailto:&#x6D;&#x64;&#x77;&#x40;&#x77;&#x33;&#x2E;&#x6F;&#x72;&#x67;">&#x6D;&#x64;&#x77;&#x40;&#x77;&#x33;&#x2E;&#x6F;&#x72;&#x67;</a>&gt;, Team Contact, W3C</address>
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