HTML5 GeoLocation example (5th March 2010)

This page is a bare bones example of the GeoLocation API. Currently, I've had this page working with Chrome 5+ and Firefox 3.5+. Safari 5 (Windows) is supposed to have support too, but I've not had it workiong with that browser.

Notes

• In Chrome you will need to be on the dev channel, and you will also need to start it with the --enable-geolocation flag (you can add it to your shortcut).
• It seems to sometimes be not working on Google Chrome. So try restarting your browser and then going to this page.
• In Firefox 3.5+ I didn't have to do anything (though it can still be a little temperamental).

By themselves, the latitude and longitude coordinates aren't particularly useful, so what you can do is plug them into your favourite mapping service, like the Google Maps API. This can be quite accurate. For instance, the examples of this that I've seen showed my exact street (!). Ideal if you're planning a raid of some sort for example.

MSIE support

Somewhat surprisingly, MSIE seems to have been given this facility via the Google toolbar. So if you have the Google Toolbar installed, GeoLocation works (!).