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Geospatial Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Mobile Web.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: Candidate Recommendations, Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Candidate Recommendations

2010-09-07

Geolocation API Specification

This specification defines an API that provides Web pages scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device.

Last Call Drafts

2011-12-01

DeviceOrientation Event Specification

This specification defines several new DOM event types that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a hosting device.

2011-12-01

Geolocation API Specification Level 2

This specification adds the ability to retrieve a civic address, rather than coordinates, to the Geolocation API.

Other Working Drafts

2011-05-12

Points of Interest Core

The Points of Interest Core describes a data model and XML syntax for representing information about points of interest on the World Wide Web.