[OpenLayers-Users] FF 3.5 Geolocation API

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Thu Oct 29 11:53:21 EDT 2009


Hi all,

I can across this today and thought this might be interesting for 
OpenLayers Users.

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation

The short story is that it is a JavaScript API that lets you get a FF 
3.5+ clients location, if they want to share it. This is like GeoIP, but 
built into FF. You can get the initial location when they browse to your 
page, and you can get their updated position if they are a mobile device 
on the move, so you can scroll the map as they move, or recompute a 
route based on their current location and a destination, etc.

Very cool to see this kind of thing moving into the browser.

-Steve W



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