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Is there a way to make HTML5's Geolocation only work, if it is using a GPS device to get the location?

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I don't believe it's possible, the best you can do is pass true for enableHighAccuracy and use a heuristic based on the accuracy value.

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I saw a presentation by Remy Sharp last month and he had a useful suggestion: if you use watchPosition instead of getCurrentPosition then you can wait until the location information becomes accurate enough; GPS often takes some time to lock on to satellites so usually getCurrentPosition will just return something from one of the less accurate but more responsive methods.

robertc
Yep, I'd second this. The implementation on the browser controls how location is determined and they pretty much all try most accurate (GPS) and fall back to network based detection.
Kevin