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Here's my situation; I've built a very simple web app that looks up a users location and plots it on a Google map. Here's my code: http://pastebin.com/d3a185efd
When I test it, my location is detected as being >= 500 meters from where I actually stand...
Started by Sam on
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Navigator and Geolocation objects?
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation.
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Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I have...
Started by phpguy on
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The Google Maps API provides a geocoder webservice that you can actually use independently... .
Alternatively, you can buy the "PAF" (Postcode Address File) from the Royal Mail, but it is expensive .
Http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk should be able to help with this.
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Does anyone have any recommendations on geolocation web services (preferably free!)?
Planning on using it in an asp.net app, I'd heard Google might have something.
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MaxMind is not free, but their SaaS (web service) offering is VERY reasonably... .
It takes some figuring out to begin with, but we were up and running using the geocoding portion in less than a day .
We use the Google Maps API and it's very straightforward to use .
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What are the available (best) ruby IP-based geolocation gem/plugins?
How do they compare to one another in terms of functionality, performance and ease of use (e.g. do they interact with a web service, or require a separate database, etc.) ?
I'm hoping...
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While.
However, GeoMereLaal ( http://github.com as it's supported by more browsers since it uses more methods of Geolocation (GPS, WiFi, cookies, IP).
Distance calculation helpers, reverse geolocation, etc.
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The iPhone supports geolocation in mobile Safari via the following call:
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( function(pos){ var lat = pos.coords.latitude; var long = pos.coords.longitude; }, function(){ /* Handler if location could not be found ...
Started by Maciek on
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Google Gears provides a geolocation API with a syntax fairly.
Although I think it's a great practice to standardize on the (draft, by the way) W3C Geolocation is substantially different, but still easy .
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I have installed Webalizer on Ubuntu with Synaptic Package Manager and it works just fine.
Then I installed Webalizer on Mac (10.6.2) with http://webalizer.darwinports.com/ . But geolocation does not work.
I have parsed the exactly same log with Ubuntu...
Started by Ċ½eljko Filipin on
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Hope that helps
You are using v2.01 which does not support geolocation..
Webalizer needs to be built with --enable-geoip for the geolocation to work - that darwinports resolution working.
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Does anyone know whether the iPhone supports or will soon support the W3C Geolocation specification ?
I'm looking to build an app for mobile users, but rather than spend the time developing apps for every different platform (iPhone, Android, etc...), ...
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Try my Geolocation demo site worked with FireFox 3.5 on my laptop!
Geolocation javascript API
The Geolocation API Specification;head> <title....
Btw Geolocation works on the Android G1 mobile device with Gears.
In public.
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Hi ,
First of all thanks to all ....
I read that i can use the free IP geolocation webservice to get Country name from an Ip address. But how i get the response to my site , Actually this is what i look , In my site there is a need of displaying the country...
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Http://www.maxmind.com/app/php
You need to install the php module and then use the following code to get the country name:
$country_name = apache_note("GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME");
[geoip_country_code_by_name][1] can give you the country for an arbitrary IP... .
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This is quite a long winded question, you can just skip to the last sentence if you don't care about the background info.
I just tested out HTML5 geolocation using Firefox 3.5+, and it managed to find my house, literally my exact address. I've been reading...
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W3C Geolocation API, however mentions
The Geolocation API defines a high-level....
Some info: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/
whether they also store a huge, Google Maps may not be able to provide a location at all.
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This is probably a very silly question. I am trying to do a geolocation to find a users address based on their ip address using the api provided by http://www.hostip.info/use.html . I am using this in conjuction with jquery with the following code:
$....
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You can't make calls....
If hostip offered a JSONP API , that would be usable, but I didn't see any mention of one on their site .
Cross-domain limitations are likely to prevent you from reading the result data .
I don't think the call to them is successful.
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