how to connect intel edison to cloud using C/C++

Hello sir,

i want to send/update location data (gps navigation)to cloud platform using onboard wifi of intel edison for my school project. I'm using C/C++ for the programming language(IDE).So what are the steps and from where should  have i to start?

i'm searching for documentation link about wifi but didn't get. could you please send me link for a simple step of documentation of data to cloud using wifi for C/C++. so that i could understand better in a short of time.