Comments on: navigator.geolocation: Using the W3C Geolocation API today

By: wingi

wingi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:49:16 +0000

Client side geolocation accessis limited. 1) safari in iPhone ask the visitor to allow it 2) it works only on mobile devices. Try a look at the IP to Geolocation APIs, combine it and you can access via javascript!

http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/ip2-geolocation-mashup-tutorial

By: AmitChauhan

AmitChauhan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:52:32 +0000

Nice article. I also created a google gadget application to display a host’s geolocation on google maps. Take a look at it here: http://www.codazzle.com. Hope you guys like it.

By: archolyte

archolyte — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:54:08 +0000

Sorry, I have to correct my previous comment. Replace the line with:
if(typeof(google.gears)!='object'){return}
(I forgot the Not! and second it’s better to test the type of google.gears instead of just doing a boolean check)

By: Yannick

Yannick — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:52:43 +0000

Great idea! By the way Firefox 3.1 beta has support for the geo location API, haven’t tested yet though.

I have 2 problems with your current implementation:
- computer that doesn’t have gears installed doesn’t fall back to ClientLocation for some reason
- computer that has gears installed doesn’t fall back on ClientLocation when Deny is clicked.

Will let you know if I find a solution.

By: grah

grah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:32:13 +0000

I’m getting the same issue as Matthew. Gears can’t find me ;[

By: webEater

webEater — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:19:46 +0000

Take a look at Nico Goeminne’s client side ReverseGeocoder – based on Google Maps API: http://nicogoeminne.googlepages.com/documentation.html

I used it to reverse geocode many points, and it works great.

By: Matthew Lieder

Matthew Lieder — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:09 +0000

Looks neat, though for whatever reason the HTML5 version couldn’t find me (though I clicked Allow on the Gears prompt) while the pure ClientLocation version could find me. It doesn’t look like you’re using ClientLocation as a fallback for the HTML5 version?