There is a growing requirement for a standard way of sharing GPS location information between disparate systems, devices and users. For example, to transmit location data from a GPS-enabled client application (possibly running on a handheld device) to a central server running location-aware Web Services. Another example would be to enable users to share waypoints, routes and/or track logs more easily, regardless of their GPS device or application. Chaeron will submit the GPSml specification to the W3C for adoption as a standard once it stabilizes and is released in a final version.

adding location-awareness will allow the web to track the real world much better. it would allow to reduce the impedance mismatch in user interfaces, and allow the web to recede more into the (ubiquitous) background, where it belongs.

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