Background geofencing

[reillyeon]

There are a couple of related issues touching on aspects of supporting background geolocation. Let's use this one to track background geofencing specifically.

For reference, @mkruisselbrink sent a proposed API to the Geolocation WG mailing list back in 2014. That seems like a reasonable place to start if someone wants to pick up this work.

Note that at time of writing no implementers appear to be interested in developing an API for background geolocation or geofencing and so any specification work done in this group will be purely speculative.

[mkruisselbrink]

A couple of years later (although still a long time ago) I also wrote a different proposal at https://gist.github.com/mkruisselbrink/70c95b3068e1bbe9b668#triggered-alarms.

[anssiko]

@mkruisselbrink, thanks for reminding us of your different geofencing proposal that reuses and extends the envisioned GeolocationSensor interface.

We'll ask the community to take another look at this proposal to see if we can gather more feedback beyond what's in that Gist. If you recall this being discussed in the past in some other forum, feel free to provide further pointers in this issue.