Comments on: iPhone 3.0 geolocation javascript API

By: Chi Patts

Chi Patts — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:39:19 +0000

Hello, I came across this article while searching for help with JavaScript. I have recently switched browsers from Google Chrome to Firefox 3.2. After the change I seem to have a problem with loading JavaScript. Every time I go on a website that needs Javascript, the site does not load and I get a “runtime error javascript.JSException: Unknown name”. I cannot seem to find out how to fix the problem. Any help is very appreciated! Thanks

By: Dylan Phillips

Dylan Phillips — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:44:53 +0000

Found this entry today, definitely some changes to the result set. The problem was that my iPhone took too long to get it’s location, after a few requests. It was able to ‘lock’ in on me. In fact, during intensive tests 3 weeks ago the iPhone outperformed Droid on the GPS.

Very happy with both platforms and the possibilities.

By: Dylan Phillips

Dylan Phillips — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:20:07 +0000

Just did a head to head with my iPhoneGS versus my Droid.

Even with position options set to {enableHighAccuracy:true, maximumAge: 0}. The I phone just stunk.

Looks like it was giving me the Address of the cell tower. If I left Safari, and did a GetLocation from Google Mapples.

The next calls from within Safari got the correct location. This really needs to be fixed.

Droid rocked it out. I was able to walk through the park, updating my GeoCode every 30, through JavaScript on the browser.

By: Escaping the iPhone App Store « Ginormous Media

Escaping the iPhone App Store « Ginormous Media — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:28 +0000

[...] – Determine user location. On iPhone this means limited access to the GSP/Location API. This example demonstrates how easy it is to ask Safari for the user’s [...]

By: iPhone 3.0 Geolocation Javascript API - Affiliate Failure

iPhone 3.0 Geolocation Javascript API - Affiliate Failure — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:13:25 +0000

[...] View the code here: http://blog.bemoko.com/2009/06/17/iphone-30-geolocation-javascript-api/ [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:14:55 +0000

Mike: try to use Googlemaps API -> Google knows what u want they really do!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:13:16 +0000

So with a xml document that only stores the names of cities eg: New York, Boston, London, Sydney etc. What would be the simplest way to interface the long and lat data with the city name strings.

Does a database of city long and lats exist that i could reference with javascript?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:17:22 +0000

Thanks for the demo code! I cribbed off it to make a little webapp that shows nearby Wikipedia articles. More details on my blog at http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/wikihere.html

By: The first of the (HTML5) mobile web app stores | bemoko's mobile web

The first of the (HTML5) mobile web app stores | bemoko's mobile web — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:09:07 +0000

[...] We’re already seeing a taster of this HTML5 support, with the iPhone geolocation support in iPhone 3.0. Many apps currently in the app store realm lend themselves well to a personalised microsite with [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:46:55 +0000

@Stanislav
All that tells you is that the current user agent supports the W3C’s geolocation API (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html). It doesn’t tell you if the user agent is safari or iPhone 3.0. For instance, that test passes in Firefox 3.5.