HTML5 Geo-location

HTML5 includes a geo-location API, allowing a website to quickly find your approximate location. As well as smartphones, geo-location also works for computers.

Find your location

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Geo-location allows you to target content based on a user's location, personalising languages and currencies etc. Delivery times can also be estimated, providing a strongly personal user experience.

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How does this work?

While mobile phone manufacturers have developed their own geo-location APIs, an Open Source Javascript library eliminates any differences between these and other internet browsers, and allows for simple acquisition of a user's location.

As Internet Explorer does not support the HTML5 geo-location API, Google Gears can be implemented to provide wide support.

Geo-location is not completely stable, but error handling helps to eliminate any nasty errors.