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Revision: 45090
at April 24, 2011 17:37 by ryanstewart
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>ADC Geolocation Example</title>

<!-- 
An example of the HTML5 Geolocation API for the
Adobe Developer Center by Ryan Stewart - [email protected] 
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com
-->

<script type="text/javascript">
	// Define the watchID variable so we can turn it off
	var watchID;
	
	// Start getting the location whenever it changes
	function getLocationConstant()
	{
		if(navigator.geolocation)
		{
			watchID = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(onGeoSuccess,onGeoError);	
		} else {
			alert("Your browser or device doesn't support Geolocation");
		}
	}

	// Get a single location update
	function getLocationConstant()
	{
		if(navigator.geolocation)
		{
			navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onGeoSuccess,onGeoError);	
		} else {
			alert("Your browser or device doesn't support Geolocation");
		}
	}

	// If we have a successful location update
	function onGeoSuccess(event)
	{
		alert(event.coords.latitude + ', ' + event.coords.longitude);
	}
	
	// If something has gone wrong with the geolocation request
	function onGeoError(event)
	{
		alert("Error code " + event.code + ". " + event.message);
	}
	
	// Called when we want to stop getting location updates
	function stopGetLocation(event)
	{
		navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(watchID);	
	}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<input type="button" value="Get Location" onclick="getLocation()" /><br />
<input type="button" value="Toggle Constant Location Update" onclick="getLocationConstant()" /><br />
<input type="button" value="Stop Tracking Location" onclick="stopGetLocation()" />
</body>
</html>
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ADC HTML5 Geolocation API Example









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JavaScript