On 23 Sep 2009, at 11:21, Dan Martin wrote:
>
> reasons demand for instance an iPhone app. Plus newer browsers are
> starting
> to allow geo-positioning data to be passed from the handset to the
> web-app
> (Safari does this on iPhone), and so that allows for Location Based
> Services
> via web-apps (e.g. simple example - plotting user on campus map)
This is obviously essential functionality, and it does currently need
a range of approaches.
Google gears fixes some of it, and there is even a way of getting up
info from a Blackberry.
Don't forget the poor folks with relatively old devices with no GPS at
all. As a backup, we allow users to say where they are by text input
(eg address, postcode etc)
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