Originally Posted by Tanoh
Interesting. Still, going from proof of concept to a working addon is a long long way.
The effects on gameplay are quite big if they get it working properly. Imagine in "spread fights", such as Gruul, if at least one in each group broadcasted the locations of everyone in their group right around shatter everyone could calculate quite accurately exactly how close someone else is to them, and with some modifiers estimate the amount of damage they would recieve, and warn if it's lethal or not.
There has to be a reason why Blizzard isn't allowing the "get my map coordinate" call inside an instance, I think it's because they do not want addons to be able to do the things above.
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You can already do personal range detection within certain fuzzy limits, which is what a lot of bossmods do. GPSLib would be more appropriate for setting up waypoints and - as people have said - to watch the positions of people during a fight. Coupled with combat-tracking addons such as Recount, it should be quite neat.
AFAIK, GPSLib is actually working - no one has started using it is all. What is needed is an addon like Cartographer, that allows you to display dungeons and the people that have GPSLib installed on it.
It would be neat to have Waypoints (preferably looking just as Cartographer_Waypoints since that's a good enough one) but what is needed is first and foremost display with some ability to interact with the map.
In fact, it might be possible to just "patch" in current locations in the dungeon maps in Cartographer.