Bakelithandy

I just tried to have a look at the headers of the Android web browser, here they are:

Host: 192.168.1.21:8080
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept: text/xml,
  application/xml,
  application/xhtml+xml,
  text/html;q=0.9,
  text/plain;q=0.8,
  image/png,
  */*;q=0.5
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.0; en-us; dream) 
  AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) 
  Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2
Accept-Language: en-US
Accept-Charset: utf-8, iso-8859-1, utf-16, *;q=0.7

This looks innocent enough. But there was one question which I couldn‘t stop wondering about! Why isn‘t there an option to provide your geographical location with your request? After all, its all about location based services

After a short research I discovered that there is actually already a draft for a standard in existence, for exactly this kind of application!

http://geotags.com/geo/draft-daviel-http-geo-header-01.html

I could imagine so many uses for this feature, especially for developers of location aware webapps it would be great. I‘m still waiting for an easy way to find my way to an Asian supermarket.

Update

There is another specification which is in active development: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html, which seems to have some momentum. Does anyone know if this is already implemented somewhere?