[mapguide-users] Tracking location in MapGuide OS on a Notebook with GPS receiver

[Jason Birch]

I think I saw an article somewhere saying that the location api url is
configurable, so maybe you could hack FF to talk to the laptop-local
web service :)

On 2010-01-14, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> then just a simple script in your preferred language which
> runs on your webserver which you can poll using setTimeOut
> which talks to your GPS and returns the current position
> will work nicely.... you'd wanna watch the size of your web
> server logs tho..
>
> 2010/1/14 Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S <ks at geograf.dk>:
>> There is an example of the geolocation API for firefox here:
>> http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/geolocation/
>>
>> Unfortunately (for Thomas) this does not read GPS data yet:
>> <quote>
>> There are a few common ways to get location information.
>> The most common are local WiFi networks, IP address information, and
>> attached GPS devices.
>> In Firefox 3.5 we use local WiFi networks and IP address information to
>> try
>> and guess your location.
>> </quote>
>>
>> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
>>
>> On 14-01-2010 09:32, Zac Spitzer wrote:
>>>
>>> should be pretty easy with a modern real browser, firefox has native
>>> support for reading your location.. just need to do some simple
>>> javascript
>>>
>>> 2010/1/14 Thomas Grosser<grosser at kom21.de>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year to everybody of this mailing list ! We want to show the
>>>> actual (live) position in MapGuide OS while using a Laptop with an
>>>> integrated GPS Receiver. Has anyone ideas how this can be realized ?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> a lot !
>>>>
>>>> Thomas
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