Web Location
A labs.ericsson.com enabler
http://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-location/

Web Location
Retrieve the location of your users from their mobile
phones
A simple web interface to access the location of a user in
the mobile phone network
Maintain user integrity and privacy (end-user consent is
managed by the API)
Powered by Ericsson IPX
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Why Web Location?
Get the accurate, current position of the users of your web
applications (accuracy ~ 100 – 1km)
Locate users and at the same time maintain user integrity
and privacy (end-user consent is managed by the API)
No need for users to input their location or install any
applications or browser plugins
Web Location is the quickest, simplest, and most accurate
way of positioning users in location based web applications
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Main Features of Web Location
Powerful location component easily embedded into any web page
Enables exposure of user’s location to a web application
Get access to operator-based positioning (triangulation) via Ericsson IPX
No need for users to install any applications on their phones, and the
positioning works for all types of phones
Includes management of end-user consent to give users complete control
of privacy.
Easily integrated RESTful API
Free user locations up to a limit
Currently works with all operators in Sweden and Norway (more countries
are coming)
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Web Location Overview
• Your user visits your • Web Location asks • Web Location finds
website your user if she the location of the
user’s mobile phone • You show the user a
agrees to be located website customized to
• You ask the Web
by your application • Web Location sends their exact location
Location API for user
location the location to you
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Web Location API
Retrieve the location of your users with a simple call to the
Web Location API
Simple example in PHP (get user location and display it):
//Create a request for the end-user location
$url = "http://mwl.labs.ericsson.net/mwlservice/resource/";
$fields = array(
'msisdn' => $_POST['msisdn'],
'devKey' => 'APIKEY',
'applicationID' => 'APPLICATIONID'
);
$create_url = $url . 'location/getLocationByMsisdn';
//Make the request
$response = http_post_fields($create_url, $fields, NULL, array("timeout"=>10), $info);
//Extract the body from the response and print it
$http_obj = http_parse_message($response);
print("Response = ".$http_obj->body);
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