path: root/help/C/geolocation-turn.page

<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="geolocation-turn">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="geolocation#geoloc"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="geolocation-privacy"/>
    <desc>
      How to activate and deactivate geolocation in <app>Empathy</app>.
    </desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-19" status="review">
      <!--
      <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-09" status="deferred"/>
      -->
    </revision>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
<!--
    <copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
    </copyright>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
-->
  </info>

  <title>Activate/Deactivate geolocation</title>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
        Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui></guiseq>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Select the <gui>Location</gui> tab.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Select <gui>Publish location to my contacts</gui> to activate geolocation.
      </p>
      <p>
        To deactivate geolocation, deselect it.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        To increase the accuracy of your position, deselect
        <gui>Reduce location accuracy</gui>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        If you have an external device like a GPS or want to send a more accurate
        position, select the appropriate option in the <gui>Location sources</gui>
        section. 
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>