Comments on: iPhone 3.0 geolocation javascript API

By: Joris

Joris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:11:30 +0000

I just tested this on my Iphone 4 but it’s not working, still it is working in Safari, Chrome and Firefox 5…

Do you know why it’s not working on the Iphone 4 and how I can get this to work?

Thanks!

By: ricky

ricky — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:03:02 +0000

heya, yeah it was working now, sorry i had an error in my code.

is there anyway to assign the long and lat to a variable in php, so when using the yelp api to search bars, a list of local ones would come up based on the long and lat?

By: Ian Homer

Ian Homer — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:57:47 +0000

Ricky – it’s working OK for me (just tested in Firefox 4) – what browser are you coming in one?

By: ricky

ricky — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:42:49 +0000

hi ive just tried this to test, im not getting a map, but a location,

is this example no longer valid?

By: krycek

krycek — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:44:42 +0000

You don’t have to have the newest mobile phone to use GPS and Geolocation API. Almost every mobile browser (without proxy server) can be used to read position from buidin GPS. If You have Java and GPS in Your phone – You can use mobile-gps-web-gate – see at http://code.google.com/p/mobile-gps-web-gate/

By: Umut Aydin

Umut Aydin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:13:57 +0000

Hello,

I couldn’t run it on iPhone 4 Simulator. I try to show an alert box with position data. There is no error but no result also.
Any known problem like that?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:24:43 +0000

@Craig: It seems that Apple has decided to modify their support. I’ve found that the GPS data provided using the Web-based API may correspond only to the AGPS (Assisted location) which lacks accuracy. Hopefully, they will release something soon to fix or inform about how to get more accurate data using the API.

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:34:04 +0000

That is beautiful.

I have been looking for this functionality for many months now, and I have been told by a number of people (who should know better) that its not possible to get someones phone location from their browser.

Great post

Nic

By: Ian Homer

Ian Homer — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:32:05 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. We’ll give it a go on OS4

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:26:26 +0000

Hopefully the writer is reading this comment. Any info on OS4 Beta? It seems this code does not work. I went to your test site and it returned ‘Location Unknown’