diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a1ad14f2..55d8c315 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -46,3 +46,6 @@
 [submodule "qtwebkit"]
 	path = qtwebkit
 	url = git://gitorious.org/webkit/qtwebkit.git
+[submodule "qtlocation"]
+	path = qtlocation
+	url = git://gitorious.org/qt/qtlocation.git
diff --git a/init-repository b/init-repository
index 423fc856..b7a0fe45 100755
--- a/init-repository
+++ b/init-repository
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ my %STAGING_REPOS = map { $_ => "git://gitorious.org/qt/$_.git" } qw(
     qttranslations-staging
     qtwebkit-examples-and-demos-staging
     qtxmlpatterns-staging
+    qtlocation-staging
 );
 
 my $BNE_MIRROR_URL_BASE
diff --git a/qt.pro b/qt.pro
index fc5f424d..d2fb223d 100644
--- a/qt.pro
+++ b/qt.pro
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ module_qtqa.subdir = $$IN_PWD/qtqa
 module_qtqa.target = module-qtqa
 module_qtqa.depends = module-qtbase
 
+# not yet enabled via SUBDIRS
+module_qtlocation.subdir = $$IN_PWD/qtlocation
+module_qtlocation.target = module-qtlocation
+module_qtlocation.depends = module-qtbase
+
 SUBDIRS       = \
                 module_qtbase \
                 module_qtsvg \
diff --git a/qtlocation b/qtlocation
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..5cd7fecf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qtlocation
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 5cd7fecf53ee6f4381417db3dd199fd3355685d2