add:vehicle:vehicle_geoclue:Add Vehicle geoclue #1063
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This PR adds the new Geoclue vehicle.
Geoclue is a Position Libary which is available for at least Gnome based Desktops and also more importantly upcoming Linux Phones like the PinePhone or Librem 5 include it as well (with
phoshdistro).Geoclue also has an fallback to GeoIP or CellID (when supported) so the user should be presented with a location roughly in the neighborhood any time, even on PCs.
This is also important since i don't happen to have such a device around to test, but i have a PineTab which can be used for WiFi based location. In my around area we dont have much geotaged WiFis, but some, so i was able to see Navit jumping around. When the coverage would be better i really think this vehicle can be fluid.
Some things are not perfect however:
Tested: