I'm currently working on developing a Google Maps API implementation that overlays topographic data from USGS Terra Server. I think I have it pretty much under hand except that I can't figure out how to determine the name of the quad, name, & scale for the current tile being served from Terra Server. If you check out this site and zoom i...
Hi, I would like to get the City name,Country Name from IPAddress. I have used the below URL http://www.ipgp.net/api/xml/220.244.120.73. But in the City field, its giving Area name. For eg,when the user is in Sydney,Australia. Its giving as Mascot,Australia where Mascot is a place in Sydney. Can you please advise. Regards, Mugil. ...
Guys i have a little problem, i tried to find some examples on GeoIP based system that expands searches based on nearest neighbor countries. For example the visitor is from UK and tries to find IPs from France, Spain, Belgium etc. not for example Brazil, Argentina, China. So how can i get nearest countries from a given country/IP and exp...
Hey Friends Will J2ME Location Based API work without GPS?can you gave me example? ...
I have an activity that implements LocationListener in my application and my onLocationChanged method has been working perfectly up until recently. For some reason the Location object being passed into the method is null. My question is, why is it null? Does it pass in a null object if it cannot acquire a location? My GPS is on and I...
Hello, I am planning to use Maxmind's DAT file to provide some basic geolocation capabilities in an ASP.NET MVC application I'm developing. The DAT file is approximately 17mb and I'm wondering what the best approach would be to load this in my application - obviously I don't want to load it every time some geographical information is req...
Dear all, I would like to get the latitude and longitude of current location from gps enabled mobile device right from the web browser. May I know is this possible? how to do it? does it require geolocation api? Some coding example would be helpful. Thanks. ...
Hi I'm using ms sql 2005 to store some latlng data. It is currently being stored in a nvarchar column in the following form - "35.6949965,139.7555035" My questions are. Is this the best way to store this kind of data? If I do store the latlng in this way is it going to come and bite me later, or will it mean just that I will have to do a...
I've found bits and pieces of this answer scattered through other posts, but I wanted to record it here for others. How can I simply request the user's GPS and/or Network location and, if they haven't enabled the service, prompt them to do so? ...
I know this is a very noobish question -- but what is the best way to convert a GeoPoint to a Location on the Android platform. ...
Hi, I'm trying to load the values returned by geolocation into a few labels in an asp.net page. The following function is getting called on onload(), but doesn't always return a value. I thought by passing a callback function like I am this would handle the asynchronous nature of the call, but I must be missing something. Any help wo...
We are creating an application which is about people density in some area. Currently we found only SpotRank providing people density information. Do you know about any alternatives to their service we could evaluate ...
Hi can anybody tell me what exactly i am doing wrong I cant seem to get either the success or fail function to run. function init(){; // Get the current location getPosition(); } function getPosition(){ navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(success, fail); } function success(position) { alert("Your lat...
I'm looking for a javascript library to extend the native geolocation function if(navigator.geolocation) { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) { var latitude = position.coords.latitude; var longitude = position.coords.longitude; }); } so that I could use the visitor's...
We are trying to implement geolocation on this mobile app, we get the prompt for location but its not actually updating. Tried to firebug and I am not seeing any posts or responses. Does anyone see anything immediately wrong? http://bit.ly/cCMlWv here is our js function (function($){ $.extend($.support,{ geolocation:function(){ ...
Is there a way to make HTML5's Geolocation only work, if it is using a GPS device to get the location? ...
Hi all, I'm looking for good GIS solutions that work on a relatively smaller, detailed scale. Specifically, I was wondering what APIs or toolkits are available for mapping out spaces in a building (like rooms, hallways, shelves). This need not be a 3D solution, like one might envisage for architectural CAD-type drawings. Something relat...
Is there any plugin which will help to create a dropdown menus for countries, regions and cities? At first user chooses country, then he has his region dropdown menu updated according to which country he has chosen, he chooses region and after that from 3rd menu a city. Plugin can be either for Ruby on Rails, jQuery or maybe javascript ...
I'm interested in getting polygon data for cities and in particular neighborhoods of cities. Does any of the open-source 'geolibraries' like yahoo geoplanet or geonames offer such a thing? On first glance I can't seem to find it. Thanks. ...
Basically what I am trying to do is get access to the gps coordinates on the iphone 4. I'm not creating any type of web app. I can't find too much other than the geolocation api, but that seems to be geared toward creating web apps. Is there a javascript function that I can call from the phone itself that will return its own gps coordin...