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

[Richard Greenwood]

What do you mean by "not working"? Is the location wrong or are you getting
an error or something else? If the location is wrong I would start be
turning WiFi off. This encourages the device to use its GPS, which for me
(in a rural area), usually give better results. Urban areas it might be the
opposite. Another device-specific problem that I see on my Android phone is
that it will cache the location which might be quite out of date. There is
an option to set the maximum acceptable age but it seems to be ignored by
my phone. However putting it in 'track' mode seems to be a work around -
the first point may be an old cached location but subsequent ones will be
correct.

Rich


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jeff Dege <jeff.dege at korterra.com> wrote:

> 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.****
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> So to eliminate the possibility of coding errors, we’ve been trying to
> access the openlayers geolocation example, from the various devices:****
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>                 http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/geolocation.html****
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> 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.****
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> Oddly enough, we have two identical IPhones, and on one it works and on
> the other it doesn’t.****
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> Clearly, this is an issue of client-side configuration, of some sort.
>
> ****
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> 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?****
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> 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.)****
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> 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.****
>
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> So, has anyone assembled a collection of instructions we could refer them
> to?****
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Richard Greenwood
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