What python libraries can tell me approximate location and timezone given an IP address?
Looking to implement better geo-location with Python. Thanks. ...
geolocation
Mysql overlap vs distance--which is faster?
I'm trying to find rows which are within __meters from the given point. THis can be done via distance or overlap. WHat is faster? ...
What type of database schema should I use for storing and working with geolocation data?
I'm creating an application that will store geolocation data for specific transactions. Should I store a simple lat/long or is there a more preferred standard? What datatypes should I use to allow for switching to NoSQL in the future? ...
Location detecting tecniques for IP addresses
What are the location detecting tecniques for IP adresses? I know to look at the $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] (not accurate but mostly useful to detect location, for example if an IP range's users set French to their browser then it means that this range) belongs to France and gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) (to look country c...
How to get the IPhone to include location information in web request?
We have a web site that sends emails with http links on that email. As the recipient clicks on the link, they are directed to our web site. How can we get the IPhone to include the latitude and longitude of the device? ...
.NET get timezone by city or by longitude and latitude
Hello, I'm using .NET and I'm able to geolocate user city by IP. Is there easy way to get user timezone by long. and lat. or city name? I wonder how facebook is doing it? Thank You ...
Mobile Safari Geolocation API Issues
Hi, since Mobile Safari's Geolocation API should be an implementation of the W3C Geolocation API I found some bugs. I was wondering if anybody noticed the same. As specified in the W3C Geolocation API the PositionCallback returns a Position object, which contains a Coordinates object. In this object all attributes are of type double....
Finding whether two geo-coordinates lie on the same road
Hi there, Given two geo-coordinates in (latitude,longitude) format, is it possible to find out if they lie on the same road? I want to do this programatically not visually. I can perhaps extract addresses and compare the street name, but since streets can change names over a long distance, this solution doesnt sem to work :( Cheer...
Determine if IP Address is Cellular IP Address
In .NET Compact Framework a device can have several IP Addresses I want to find one that is NOT coming from the Cellular connection. Goal is for WiFi or Ethernet connection. Is there a way to do this? Seems like State and Notification Broker would have a way to do this but didn't see a way. ...
Get weather from Yahoo with jQuery
I'm using the Google API to get a user's location on this site. How would I go about getting the weather for that user from Yahoo or somewhere? UPDATE: Ok so I'm going with Yahoo, but I've never done an HTTP GET request before. Im using jQuery and the following code: function getWeather () { $.get("http://weather.yahooapis....
Guessing the time zone from an arbitrary "location" string?
I'm trying to run some statistics over the Stack Overflow data dump, and for that I would like to know the time zone for each user. However, all I have to go on is the completely free-form "location" string. I'll stress that I'm only looking for an approximation of the time zone; of course, in general this is an unsolvable problem. Howe...
Server-side access to Client Browser's Latitude/Longitude using Django.
Hello, So i am writing a little app that compares a user's position against a database on web-based server written using Django and performs some functions with it. Accessing the browser's geolocation data (in supported browsers ) is fairly trivial using JavaScript. But what is the best way to allow the Django server to access the lon...
Fetch Latitude Longitude by passing postcodes to maps.google.com using Javascript
Hello All... I have Postcode in my large database, which contains values like SL5 9JH, LU1 3TQ etc. Now when I am pasting above postcode to maps.google.com it's pointing to a perfect location.. My requirement is like I want to pass post codes to maps.google.com and it should return a related latitude and longitude of that pointed loca...
How HTML5 Geolocation Feature Works?
How can the browser tell where I am? Totally based on registered IP address? What if I'm behind a proxy? ...
Google's Geocoder returns wrong country
Hi I'm using Google's Geocoder to find lat lng coordinates for a given address. var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address, 'region': 'uk' }, function(results, status) { if(status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) { lat: results[0].geometry.lo...
What is the best mobile website programming language to choose?
We currently have an iPhone app and would like to build a mobile website that has similar functionalities so it is accessible on multiple types of handsets. what programming language should we best use for this? our app would like to use geolocation, camera/photo upload and access to the phone's contacts. hope you can help us out! be...
GeoModel in JRuby on AppEngine?
Is it possible to extend GeoModel class like in python? Thanks. ...
Convert long/lat to pixel x/y on a given picure.
I have a city "map" (for example - Moscow). She in accuracy repeats the contours the given city in google maps (that is it is copied from google maps and it is a little processed, but the sense remained the same). Also I have object co-ordinates in a city (in geographic coordinates). Problem: how to convert geographic coordinates to ...
Is it possible to anonymously track someone's location via mobile app?
Is it possible to anonymously track someone's location via mobile app? Assuming, of course, that the user consents and downloads an app that can in the background? ...
Longitude and latitude value from IP address
Is it possible to get the longitude and latitude value from IP address in asp.net? If it is possible, please let me know how can I get this. ...