The Gears community is discussing a Geo Location API, which Aaron Boodman mentioned "was recently proposed to the W3C WebAPI group."
Aza Raskin just posted today about Geolocation in Firefox and Beyond which covers his thoughts on an API.
I thought it would be fun to look at the proposed APIs:
Gears Examples
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
var geo = google.gears.factory.create('beta.geolocation');
// [...]
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