geolocation

Geolocation not workin on Safari 5.x on Windows 7/XP

Hi, I am working on an app that uses the W3C standard geolocation API but I cannot for the life of me get it to work on Safari on my Windows 7 and XP PC. It works fine on my iPad and my iPhone. It also works perfect on Chrome (5, 6, 7 and the Canary build) and on Firefox (3.6). I don't have a Mac so I can't test it on that. IE doesn...

Geolocation Error with IP Address 127.0.0.1

ok so I tried implementing this http://ipaddressextensions.codeplex.com/ It is displaying the output as:- 127.0.0.1 RESERVED ZZ What on earth is this RESERVED and ZZ ?? It should be displayed as INDIA IN the IP address is of the local host..alright..but what about the country name and country code ? Why won't they display correct...

HTML5 offline mode and geolocation

Is it possible to still use the geolocation features when you are in offline mode in HTML5? It appears that when I am online (navigator.onLine = true), the geolocation works fine. But when I go offline (navigator.onLine = false), I get thrown to my error callback and the error indicates geolocation not available. ...

Geocoding with Timezone information

Is there a good way to get Timezone information with DST information from a lat/long coordinate or a physical address? I've found some web services that seem to offer this service, but I can't tell how reliable they might be, or if they might disappear at some point. I need something for my application that will be around long term. ...

Android - SQlite Getting nearest locations (with latitude and longitude)

Hello, I don't know if I'm wierd, but I haven't found any topic about the subject. The thing is, I have data with lat and lng stored in my SQLite database, and I want to get the nearest locations to the parameters I put in (ex. my current location - lat, lng). I know that this is possible in MySql, and I've done quite some research that...

get GPS coordinates via bluetooth with python on OSX

I just bought a GPS bluetooth receiver, which has been correctly paired with my OSX machine. Now I would like to query the device for my position with python. How do I do it? ...

Nearest zip code of a zip code?

I need to find the 5 nearest zip code of a zip code. For example, I have 33304, and I need to find the nearest ones, like 33309, 33308 ... Is there a database or a web service somewhere that would help me with that? I think I'm gonna have to build my own database in order to do that? I know how to do it, but in case it has already been...

How to let users choose their town, so my app can know coordinates

I am starting my first Open Source ASP.NET project in C#. Data that Web app is going to show is in close relation with geographic coordinates of towns. Now I want to implement user interface where user of web app can choose a desired town and submit form, and behind scene i want to get coordinates of chosen town, so I can make calculati...

Where to get/extract relational data on administrative regions of the world?

Hi all, I'm working on a web-application that operates on services. Every service is normally provided over some (possibly several distinct) geographical domain(s) like city, county, region, state, country or worldwide. Typical tasks: users will submit their location as lng,lat and I will need to find what are the services availabl...

Using WiFi to triangulate instead of GPS

I know its probably possible, but is it practical and doable to try and geo-position someone using WiFi to triangulate... Thinking if I was underground and didn't have access to GPS, could I setup WiFi spots around the place to help locate someone. Or if I was on a plane or a train (which is constantly moving), could I setup WiFi spot...

What's a good algorithm for nearest neighbour problem in two dimensions ?

I would like to build an app that's going to give you the closest restaurant depending on your location. We'll have a database with all the POI corresponding to the restaurant and we'll get your location with the GPS of your phone... What algorithm would be appropriate ? Where can I find good doc about it ? Thanks ...

location data for symbian

I want to retrieve location data (latitude and longitude) from symbian phone with its web browser with getlocation api. Is there anyway I can do it? any api to recommend to get location data from gps enabled symbian devices? Thanks!! ...

Android service with locationListener callbacks

Hi. I have an android application. Based on the current geo location of user, I want to fetch some remote data in background and store it. My implementation is: At specific interval a alarm fires up my service. Service uses an anonymous class to query current location and registers a locationListener callback. On call of onLocationChan...

Foursquare data stream

Hi, Is there an API for tapping into an anonymized version of Foursquare's stream of check-in data? Bing Maps has Foursquare Everywhere to show check-ins. Is there a way to tap into this stream of data? We're basically interested in getting realistic location data for our research project. Thanks --Sid ...

vServer Location

Hi, in my chrome browser I use a plugin that shows me the following informations for every website I visit: Geo Information Google PageRank1. Alexa Rang Google Trends McAfee SiteAdvisor WOT Information I have a vServer and sometimes the geo inforamtion of my site changes. Is it because of the vServer? ...

Qt: Mobility GeoLocation works on Simulator but not on N900

I use the following code to get GeoLocation for my app QGeoPositionInfoSource *source = QGeoPositionInfoSource::createDefaultSource(this); if (source) { source->setUpdateInterval(1000); // time in milliseconds source->setPreferredPositioningMethods(QGeoPositionInfoSource::AllPositioningMethods); connect(source, SIGNAL(positi...

HTML5 Geolocation is so slow! what I'm doing wrong?

this is my simple code I'm using in a test page: but it takes ages to find the address...how come? am i doing something wrong? <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=it&amp;amp;file=api&amp;amp;v=2&amp;amp;sensor=true&amp;amp;key=*xxxxxx*" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var map; var geocode...

Direct users to web page, based upon their city.

Hii, We want to redirect our users to one of our web pages corresponding to the users city (location based upon the users ip address and using some ip location databases) My question is, how to make it work fast? for example in website gropoun, whenever the user visits, it instantly takes the user to its city page. Thanks. Edit: We ...

How can I find a user's GEO Location using ASP.NET?

How can I get hold of a user's GEO location within my ASP.NET application? I've noticed on browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, I (as the user) am prompted as to whether or not to allow the site to have access to my location. How can I achieve a similar thing to this? ...

get from csv or xml with multiple adresses their geocode

hi! anybody know how can i parse a csv or xml document with multiple addresses, to get their latitude and longitude? im talkin'about 300+ addresses.. thanks a lot in advance :) ...