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

Ingo Weinzierl ingo.weinzierl at intevation.de
Thu Jan 27 02:21:29 EST 2011


Hi Cédric,

thanks a lot - it works for me. I think it looks pretty nice and such
a control would be a nice feature for OL - at least for mobile
devices!

Regards, Ingo

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:55:07PM +0100, Cédric MOULLET wrote:
> Hi Ingo and René-Luc,
> I have now set the timeout to 30s. Hope this works better nowwith FF.
> Cédric
> 
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, rldhont <rldhont at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > Cédric I Think the timeout need to be longer for not mobile browser. The
> > Google Service is slow on Firefox. You can test it here :
> > http://3liz.org/geolocation/
> >
> > Le 26/01/2011 07:57, Ingo Weinzierl a écrit :
> >
> >  Hi devs,
> >>
> >> the example is not working with Firefox-4.0b10pre as well. Even with
> >> the suggested Google geolocation service Add-on installed...
> >>
> >
> > The Add-on gives you the ability to store geolocation to use with the API.
> > The default geolocation is given by the Google Service. You have to create
> > eolocation in geolocater if you want to test API without Google Service.
> >
> > René-Luc
> >
> >
> >  On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:59:59PM +0100, rldhont wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Firefox uses Google geolocation service for the HTML5 Geolocation API,
> >>> but I don't really know why, the service doesn't work as well as for
> >>> Chrome.
> >>>
> >>> If you really want to test the Geolocation API with Firefox you can use
> >>> Geolocater Add-on,
> >>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/geolocater/ .
> >>> This add-on gives you the hability to manage you're geolocation on the
> >>> Web, position and precision.
> >>>
> >>> You can test the Geolocation Control with it if you want.
> >>>
> >>> René-Luc D'Hont
> >>> 3Liz
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> >>
> >> Best regards, Ingo
> >>
> >
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