[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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