HTML 5 Geolocation
About the Lecture
The lecture HTML 5 Geolocation by Eduonix Learning Solutions is from the course HTML5. It contains the following chapters:
- What is Geolocation?
- How it Works
- Checking for Geolocation Support
- getCurrentPosition
- Presenting The Location
- Simple Example of Geolocation
- Implementing Google Maps
- getCurrentPosition Parameters
Included Quiz Questions
Which is true about Geolocation?
- They are all true
- Geolocation is an HTML5 API that allows us to get the geographical location of a website user
- Then user MUST approve before there position is located
- HTML5 Geoloaction is supported by the latest version of ALL modern browsers
What is the main Geolocation API use to actually retrieve the information?
- getCurrentPosition()
- watchPosition()
- showPosition()
- None of these
Which is the most accurate way for Geolocation to get a user’s position?
- GPS
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- User Input
- GSM/CDMA Cell ID
What is not a parameter of the getCurrentPosition() Method?
- coords
- showLocation
- ErrorHandler
- Options
What are the 2 ways that Geolocation can present location info to users?
- Geodetic
- Civic
- Geodoc
Author of lecture HTML 5 Geolocation
Eduonix Learning Solutions
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Excerpts from the accompanying material
... the geographical location of a website user. The user MUST approve before getting the users position. This usually happens via ...
... Online gaming. Local headlines and weather on their front page. Job postings can automatically include commute times. ...
... information which include the following… Global Positioning System (GPS) – Most Accurate, Network Signals ...
... can also check for Geolocation using the “Modernizr” script that we used in earlier sections ...
... The getCurrentPosition API is the main method using geolocation. It retrieves the current geographic location of ...
... the asynchronous call. options (Optional): Defines a set of options for retrieving the location information. ...
... coords.latitude The latitude as a decimal number coords.longitude The longitude as a decimal number coords.accuracy The accuracy of ...
... of location data is a more human readable and understandable format. Each attribute/param has both a geodetic representation and a civic representation Attribute Geodetic Civic Position 59.3, 18.6 Stockholm ...
