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ADC HTML5 Geolocation API Example

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  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  2. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  3. <head>
  4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  5. <title>ADC Geolocation Example</title>
  6.  
  7. <!-- 
  8. An example of the HTML5 Geolocation API for the
  9. Adobe Developer Center by Ryan Stewart - [email protected] 
  10. http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com
  11. -->
  12.  
  13. <script type="text/javascript">
  14. 	// Define the watchID variable so we can turn it off
  15. 	var watchID;
  16.  
  17. 	// Start getting the location whenever it changes
  18. 	function getLocationConstant()
  19. 	{
  20. 		if(navigator.geolocation)
  21. 		{
  22. 			watchID = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(onGeoSuccess,onGeoError);	
  23. 		} else {
  24. 			alert("Your browser or device doesn't support Geolocation");
  25. 		}
  26. 	}
  27.  
  28. 	// Get a single location update
  29. 	function getLocationConstant()
  30. 	{
  31. 		if(navigator.geolocation)
  32. 		{
  33. 			navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onGeoSuccess,onGeoError);	
  34. 		} else {
  35. 			alert("Your browser or device doesn't support Geolocation");
  36. 		}
  37. 	}
  38.  
  39. 	// If we have a successful location update
  40. 	function onGeoSuccess(event)
  41. 	{
  42. 		alert(event.coords.latitude + ', ' + event.coords.longitude);
  43. 	}
  44.  
  45. 	// If something has gone wrong with the geolocation request
  46. 	function onGeoError(event)
  47. 	{
  48. 		alert("Error code " + event.code + ". " + event.message);
  49. 	}
  50.  
  51. 	// Called when we want to stop getting location updates
  52. 	function stopGetLocation(event)
  53. 	{
  54. 		navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(watchID);	
  55. 	}
  56. </script>
  57. </head>
  58.  
  59. <body>
  60. <input type="button" value="Get Location" onclick="getLocation()" /><br />
  61. <input type="button" value="Toggle Constant Location Update" onclick="getLocationConstant()" /><br />
  62. <input type="button" value="Stop Tracking Location" onclick="stopGetLocation()" />
  63. </body>
  64. </html>

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