[OpenLayers-Dev] Re: HTML 5 Geolocation API control

Roald de Wit list at rdewit.net
Sun Jan 23 05:03:16 EST 2011


Hi Cedric,

Speaking from a user's perspective: I think this control is great and 
I'd love to see it being part of OL. I can see many use cases for it, 
especially for mobile web apps.

Regards,

Roald

On 22/01/11 21:11, Cédric MOULLET wrote:
> Hello,
> I have not received any feedback about this Geolocation API control. 
> Do I have missed a discussion or is this kind of control totally out 
> of scope ?
> Hope to hear from you,
> Thanks,
> Cédric
>
> 2011/1/16 Cédric MOULLET <cedric.moullet at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cedric.moullet at gmail.com>>
>
>     Dear developers,
>     I have created an OpenLayers control
>     <http://trac.geoext.org/browser/sandbox/cmoullet/ux/GeolocationAPI/lib/GeoExt.ux/control/GeolocationAPI.js>
>     that is using the Geolocation API
>     <http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html>. A demo is here
>     <http://goo.gl/tTTjp> and some explanations are here
>     <http://goo.gl/ST1NK>.
>     Could you let me know if this would make sense to integrate such a
>     control in the OpenLayers control repository ? If yes, I can
>     provide a patch, create unit tests and create a ticket.
>     Best regards,
>     Cédric
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