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W3C Geolocation

by Andy Pemberton on Apr 29, 2011

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Who had heard of w3c geolocation before today?\nWritten code? Using it on a production site?\n
Get end users’ lat / long\nRequest push updates\nAccuracy\nSecurity baked into spec\n
Anybody seen this site? What about the little circle?\nAlso in use on Flickr, Google home page (for mobile), Travelocity\n
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maxmind - http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location\n
rssi = Received signal strength indication\nBssId = Basically the Mac address of your WAP (notably not the SSID)\n
Pretty cool; interesting impacts...\neCommerce : sell better\nCMS products: generally target better content\nCMS, WCM, web engagement vendors\n example: Omniture test & target\n example: Drupal\n http://drupal.org/project/html5_user_geolocation\n http://drupal.org/project/geolocation\n http://drupal.org/project/context_geoip\n\n
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W3C Geolocation — Presentation Transcript

HTML 5 Geolocation Wait, I mean W3C Geolocation Andy Pemberton,
navigator.geolocationgetCurrentPosition(successCallback, errorCallback, options);watchPosition(successCallback, errorCallback, options);clearWatch(in long watchId);
The Speciﬁcation• A JavaScript API that provides “scripted access to geographical location information” • http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html• Features
www.andypemberton.com/geo
The “Old Way”
A few other thoughts...• How does this work?• What about IE...• Reverse geolocation • www.andypemberton.com/geo/reverse.html
Where’s this headed?
References• http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html• http://www.andypemberton.com/geo/• http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php twitter.com/apemberton