#4282 LOW Never A: Laptops should be aware of their approximate geographical location

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#4282: Laptops should be aware of their approximate geographical location
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 Reporter:  bemasc       |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar        |     Version:                
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0             
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 Most school servers are likely to be deployed to a specific known village,
 and certainly to a known country.  Whenever a XO comes into contact with a
 new school server, it should update its location to reflect the
 village/city/province/country of the server.  This location information
 should be accessible to Activities, for "extreme l10n".  This should be
 extremely easy to implement.  Location information should include both a
 city+country name and an approximate latitude+longitude.

 My specific application is in the Acoustic Tape Measure activity.  This
 activity's functionality is sensitive to air temperature, and its accuracy
 would be improved with knowledge of air temperature.  If the location were
 known, the air temperature could easily be looked up on the internet,
 using a site like wunderground.com, which creates a real-time temperature
 map of the entire globe.

 Another application is the stargazing activity (nightsky), which requires
 knowledge of latitude and longitude to generate the correct starfield.
 This information would also be useful to any activity concerned with
 weather, agriculture, geography, local customs and history...

 In any case, knowing what country the XO is deployed in would be very
 helpful, and knowing which city would be even better.  Note that language
 != location, so laptops cannot deduce their lat/lon from LANG.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4282>
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