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What JavaScript’s Geolocation API is and how to use it
Let’s explore a simple way to get the Latitude and Longitude of a user on our site, and map that location.
The fun part, is you can do this with your own location in this article. JavaScript supplies an API, the Geolocation API, that gives us a way to get, among other things, Latitude and Longitude.
With this, we can go to our favorite mapping software and display their location or store it in a database to be analyzed at a later date.
In this article, we will only be concerned with Latitude and Longitude and viewing it in OpenStreetMap.
What Part of The Geolocation API Will We Use?
For this article, we will use we will use navigator.geolocation and the method getCurrentPosition().
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first published week of: 12/30/2019
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first published week of: 10/28/2019
The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) laid out more detail about its concerns with the FCC’s proposed rules for indoor location accuracy for 9-1-1 calls. The FCC is expected to vote on the draft order Nov. 22.
The main point of contention for APCO is that the draft rules require height above ellipsoid (HAE), a raw technical format for altitude. A 9-1-1 dispatcher would receive something similar to “101 Main Street; 76 meters, +/- 3 meters HAE” instead of “101 Main Street, 7th floor” or “101 Main Street, Apt. 702.” APCO said the latter would be more effective for 9-1-1 centers.
“The largest 9-1-1 centers in the country have said that even they don’t have the resources to turn HAE data into actionable information because it would require significant time and money to create and maintain 3D maps for the millions of buildings across the country, and then specialized software to translate the HAE readings onto the maps,” said a blog written by Jeff Cohen, APCO chief counsel and director of government relations.
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first published week of: 11/25/2019
Apple has spent years trying to live down the fiasco of swapping out Google for its own, underdeveloped version of Maps, and today at its WWDC event it unveiled a sizeable rebuild in iOS13 that will give it a big leap in dynamic rendering and interactivity, which could indeed bring a new wave of users back into the fold.The updates are being rolled out across the US by the end of this year, Apple’s SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi said, with more countries getting added next year.Federighi said that the team has covered some 4 million miles in the process of gathering more data for Maps — “Our team continues its obsession,” is how he put it — underscoring how mapping is a major priority for the company, not least because it is a cornerstone of getting Apple more users in connected vehicles by way of Car Play.To be fair, Apple has a long road ahead of it: Google Maps, combined with Google-owned Waze, essentially dominate the market for mapping apps today, and that’s not just because Android is a more ubiquitous operating system.Meg Frost, the director of product design, then came on to the stage for a demo. She noted that the new Maps app will feature a more detailed rendering of roads that will also include more data about public spaces such as beaches and parks, as well as buildings, handy when you are trying to find a specific address that isn’t immediately visible when you are on the move or in an unfamiliar place.
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first published week of: 06/03/2019
The iOS navigation app expanded its catalog to give more locations access to transit directions and indoor maps.
Apple Maps has expanded its transit directions feature to several states and countries, Apple confirmed in an update to its Feature Availability page on Tuesday. The iOS navigation app also increased indoor map support for malls and airports, MacRumors first reported.
Now transit directions are available for Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Texas in the U.S.
Apple Maps also adding indoor maps for the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in the U.S., Newcastle International Airport in England and Milano Linate Airport in Italy. The company also added almost 50 indoor mall maps around the world.
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first published week of: 02/11/2019
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Apple Inc on Wednesday published four new papers outlining technical details of how some of the privacy features in its most recent operating systems work.
The white papers are similar to a security guide that Apple publishes for the iOS operating system that powers iPhones. They cover Apple's photo app, its Safari web browser, the location-based services on its mobile devices and a new service for signing into third-party apps introduced this year that competes with similar services from Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
Apple does not make public the code for its operating systems or software, so privacy and security researchers use the descriptions it publishes to understand how those systems work.
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first published week of: 11/11/2019