I know that it's mostly "approximate". But, I must know the EXACT location of the phone, regardless of battery life or whatever. I need the exact location of the phone! Is it possible? ...
Hey All I'm getting really frustrated with google geo results and hope someone can advise me the best was to go. I have created a AutoSuggest feature where you can start typing the address and google will repspond with suggestions. User then selects and address to move on. But before I want them to continue on the next page I want to ...
Is there an easy way to determine a point's region in the world based on it's latitude and longitude? I have an entry form that a user enters in their address (city, state, and country). I then geocode this into a point that I can use on a Google Map. However, I'd like to have it store the region of the point as well so I can use it f...
Does anyone know of a good even paid API for mapping to get GEO stuff. I am really frustrated with google map giving poor results even though it beats all others. I have tried so far. Google Yahoo BING Mapquest Multimap Can anyone suggest other good services ? Hope ya CAN ! ...
I am looking for a free database (csv, tab delimited, xml, etc) or even a web service or API which will allow me to query for business listings within a certain distance of a latitude and longitude. A global scope would be perfect, but I would settle for Canada/US information. Does anyone know of anything like this? ...
I'm starting to design a geo tracking system and I would apreciate any suggestions regarding DB structure. Database should log points, directions, speed and track ...
Hi Folks, An question on latitude and longitude...Probably a silly one. I have a set of latitude and longitudes for various locations.And, I have the latitude and longitude of the location in which I am in. Now,I have to find the nearest places from my locations from the set of latitudes and longitudes I have. Is thee any special way ...
I'm working on an application that uses the iPhone GPS to acquire a location track. To save power, I want to acquire location data while the screen is off. I've learned the trick of playing a silent audio file to keep the location acquisition going while in sleep mode. I still have an occasional problem with location acquisition stopping...
I've got a bunch of "locations" - some are accurate (gaborone, botswana), some are geocodes (40.75,-73.997) and some are completely useless (#siliconcape). I need to find a way to run through the list and determine the City and Country of each string and geocode, and return nulls for the invalid locations. Is there some sort of library/...
I need a webservice that will return the country location given an IP address. I only have two requirements: It must be able to take thousands for requests per second. It must be a service where I don't have maintain the data. I know there are very similar questions here on SO, but most of the stuff people reference violates at least...
I am creating an international web application which users can subscribe to. I want subscription rates to vary based on the user's currency. If my user is in the US, they pay $19/month; if in China, they pay some other rate. So, I am thinking I could detect the user's location, and from their location, I can detect their currency (via a ...
My main purpose is to show different page to different country(language) people. I think it should be based on the user region/country, which I guess can fetch out from ip address? example: *For EN country people, they would see this. www.example.com *For Japanese, they would dispatch to this. www.example.com/jp Also I saw some people...
Hi, In my app, I request location updates and use a LocationListener and the majority of the time everything works well. When the app starts, it uses getLastKnownLocation while waiting for the first location update. I have been doing some tests on getLastKnownLocation and the results are strange... If the result of getLastKnownLoca...
What is a good map API that can display not just a static image, but the ability for the user to interact, zoom in and out. Additionally, what is a map API that can accept a street address and not a geo code? update: Is it possible to get driving directions from an embedded map API? Such that the user can click onto a node and bring up ...
Hello I would like to redirect my users to specific location areas in my website, by detecting their location from their IP address. What would be the best way to achieve this under Django 1.1.1 ? Thanks Edit: I want city based locationing on europe. ...
I'm creating rails application where it allow users to add geo-location data for restaurants, shops, etc to a map( Google map) and querying them. First I started with http://geoapi.com, as there is a feature for creating our own entities and querying them. But still the service doesn't support well for my country. So, I deiced to crea...
Hi All, I am building an application which takes 'City','State' ( For USA Only) and distance ( radius ) as user inputs and the output will be all the cities in that radius . Is there any free or paid web service available for this ? Thanks for your help Regards Kaveri ...
How to get the current Latitude and Longitude of the mobile device in android? ...
I want to implement City and State auto suggest in a form textbox. How do I do this? Weather.com has a great example on this on their front page. Questions: Where can I find a complete USA listing of city and state pairings? And is there an open API for this? Do any existing scripts/frameworks exists that already perform this auto-s...
Hi, I am in the middle of designing a web form for German and French users. Within this form, the users would have to type street names several times. I want to minimize the annoyance to the user, and offer autocomplete feature based on common French and German street names. Any idea where I can a royalty-free list? Thanks a bunch, ...