TPAC08, Mandelieu, France by Coralie Mercier

Geolocation at the W3C

"The mission of the Geolocation Working Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity, is to define a secure and privacy-sensitive interface for using client-side location information in location-aware Web applications."

New Working Group! See: http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation
Co-Chairs:
- Lars Erik Bolstad, Opera Software
- Angel Machin, Vodafone
Editors:
- Andrei Popescu, Google Inc

Geolocation Progress

Started work over Summer 2008
API Spec underway:

Geolocation Spec

Geolocation Progress (2)

Primer and Test suite getting started
First F2F 8-9 December
FPWD for API doc soon

Demo!

Details:

Based on "Geode" Firefox Extension, http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/
Web Application from Aza Rask: http://azarask.in/local

go!

Code!

Check if geolocation available:

if( !navigator.geolocation ){

Get current position, and when available call this function:

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(pos){
    ...

The rest is up to you!

Thanks!

Questions?

Geolocation Lightning Talk, Mandelieu 2008