[OpenLayers-Users] FF 3.5 Geolocation API

[Oscar Fonts]

Hi,

An example with Geolocation API, OpenLayers and OSM tiles:
http://geoportal.dlsi.uji.es/fonts/geolocationAPI/geolocationAPI.html

Compatible with Chrome, FF 3.5 and IE7+Gears.

Oscar.



2009/10/29 Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>

> 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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