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The Definitive Guide to HTML5
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The Definitive Guide to HTML5

by Adam Freeman
December 2011
Beginner to intermediate
1080 pages
23h 42m
English
Apress
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C H A P T E R  38

Using Geolocation

The Geolocation API allows us to obtain information about the current geographic position of the user (or at least the position of the system on which the browser is running). This isn't part of the HTML5 specification, but it is usually grouped up as part of the new features associated with HTML5. Table 38-1 provides the summary for this chapter.

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Using Geolocation

We access the geolocation feature through the global navigator.geolocation property, which returns a Geolocation object – the methods of this object are described in Table 38-2.

Getting the Current Position

As its name suggests the getCurrentPosition ...

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