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T. LeungBeginning Power Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6683-0_18

18. Integrating Maps and Location Services

Tim Leung1  
(1)
Reading, UK
 

With Power Apps, we can easily build canvas apps that include location-based features. Through mobile and browser-based apps, we can retrieve the location of the current user, and we can also integrate with mapping services.

Despite the relative ease with which we can retrieve location details, there are various intricacies to be aware of, especially when we want to save the results to a data source. In this chapter, we’ll cover these issues, in addition to the following topics:
  • How to retrieve location data. We’ll discover how to retrieve values including the longitude, latitude, compass bearing, ...

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