Friday, October 25, 2013

Html 5 Geolocation

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Geoloacation will find out the geographical position of a user.That means from where visitor enter your webpage.Visitor comes from across the world but if you want to track their location or their city then you can do this by using geolocation.

Introduction to geolocation

Advanced Features

Checking Support by Using Modernizer

Using geoPostion.js

Detecting Geoloaction

This will detect user location just use the javascript code in any page and that will work for you.Here alert will popup to give user information.But you can do what ever you want instead of alert.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Reverse Geocoding</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var geocoder;
  if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(successFunction, errorFunction);
}
//Get the latitude and the longitude;
function successFunction(position) {
    var lat = position.coords.latitude;
    var lng = position.coords.longitude;
    codeLatLng(lat, lng)
}
function errorFunction(){
    alert("Geocoder failed");
}
  function initialize() {
    geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
  }
  function codeLatLng(lat, lng) {
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng);
    geocoder.geocode({'latLng': latlng}, function(results, status) {
      if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
      console.log(results)
        if (results[1]) {
         //formatted address
         alert(results[0].formatted_address)
        //find country name
             for (var i=0; i<results[0].address_components.length; i++) {
            for (var b=0;b<results[0].address_components[i].types.length;b++) {

            //there are different types that might hold a city admin_area_lvl_1 usually does in come cases looking for sublocality type will be more appropriate
                if (results[0].address_components[i].types[b] == "administrative_area_level_1") {
                    //this is the object you are looking for
                    city= results[0].address_components[i];
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        //city data
        alert(city.short_name + " " + city.long_name)
        } else {
          alert("No results found");
        }
      } else {
        alert("Geocoder failed due to: " + status);
      }
    });
  }
</script>
</head>
<body onload="initialize()">
</body>
</html> 

Geolocation LIVE DEOM

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  3. Site Point

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