Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

[Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>]

	Hi.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> > It's just looking up your IP.  The method isn't reliable (it usually
> > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than
> > not.
>
> I don't believe this is the case.

The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs.

$ apt show gnome-maps | grep Dep
Depends: ... libgeocode-glib0 (>= 3.16.2) ...

$ apt-show libgeocode-glib0 | grep ^Desc
Description: geocoding and reverse geocoding GLib library using Nominatim

And the source of geocode-glib shows the actual server they're using:

GeocodeNominatim *
geocode_nominatim_get_gnome (void)
{
    GeocodeNominatim *backend;

    G_LOCK (backend_nominatim_gnome_lock);
    backend = g_weak_ref_get (&backend_nominatim_gnome);
    if (backend == NULL) {
        backend = geocode_nominatim_new ("https://nominatim.gnome.org";,
                                         "zeeshanak@gnome.org");
        g_weak_ref_set (&backend_nominatim_gnome, backend);
    }
    G_UNLOCK (backend_nominatim_gnome_lock);

    return backend;
}


> Is there any way I could check to see exactly where Gnome Maps is getting the location from?

Being the GNOME software? The source is the only way to get sure.
I'd check tcp:443 connections to 8.43.85.23.


> What is the default geolocation service installed by Gnome or Debian?

That depends on your definition of "default Debian install". For
instance, last time I've used netboot I got no such service.

Reco