[OpenLayers-Users] Enabling geolocation on various mobile devices?

[Jeff Dege]

We've added maps with geolocation services to a couple of our mobile websites. Everything looked fine, running on the developer's desktops, using Chrome's manual geolocation plugin. Now we're trying it on a number of different mobile devices, and we're seeing it not work, on some.

So to eliminate the possibility of coding errors, we've been trying to access the openlayers geolocation example, from the various devices:

                http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/geolocation.html

And on some, it works, and on some, it doesn't. The map always shows, but the "Locate me!" button works on some devices, and not no others.

Oddly enough, we have two identical IPhones, and on one it works and on the other it doesn't.

Clearly, this is an issue of client-side configuration, of some sort.

So, the question. How do we tell the end users to enable geolocation, on each and every device that any one of them might decide to use?

There are multiple possible platforms, multiple versions of Android, of IOS, QNX, etc., and some offer multiple browsers. (I have three different browsers running on my Nook.)

And our users, as could be expected, are idiots.  Or, at least, far less interested in the learning the nuts and bolts of configuring their mobile platforms than the folks around the office. And the folks around the office don't seem to know how to manage it.

So, has anyone assembled a collection of instructions we could refer them to?
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