When will the web-browser know where we are? Hopefully sometime soon.. probably not.
FireEagle (by Yahoo) is a nice first step. Have different applications tell FireEagle where you are and have web-apps request your location (with different accuracies) from FireEagle. Nice.. but not really straight forward and end-user friendly. End-users will have to have a FireEagle […]
Tag Archive for 'geocoding'
Geolocation coming to the browser..
Published by , July 19th, 2008Now/how Google knows where you are..
Published by , May 19th, 2008Having an Iphone I often use the superb Google Maps. And, I believe as of version 1.1.3 of the Iphone firmware, you can press the ‘My location’ button and you find where you are. No GPS. Only cell tower data. And.. it is scaringly accurate.
Now you (at least I) figure.. how do they do it? […]
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