<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/" type="topic" id="geolocation-not-showing"> <info> <link type="guide" xref="geolocation#problems"/> <desc> <app>Empathy</app> does not publish my geographical position. </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>Geographical position not published</title> <p> If your contacts cannot see your location, <app>Empathy</app> might not be able to discover with a good margin of precision your geographical position. </p> <p> In this case, your position will not be published, but you are still able to see the location of your contacts. </p> <p> If you want to publish your geographical position, you can try to use an external device such as a GPS. </p> <note> <p>In order to publish your geographical location, your Jabber server needs to support the Personal Eventing Protocal (PEP). A list of <link href="http://coccinella.im/servers/servers_by_pubsub_pep.html">servers which support PEP</link> is maintained online. Google Talk does not support this feature at this time.</p> </note> </page>