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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A:
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.
--Edit
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
2010-08-16 22:39:51
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
2010-08-17 08:18:41