Check out the HTML5 geolocation API. You probably want "watchPosition":
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_geolocation#Watching_the_current_position Spec: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html#watch-position Chris -- http://twitter.com/broady On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Tony Jillson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Chris. > Interesting. I hadn't thought about a copyright issue, since the API is > free to use. > Anyway, I have no problem with making a custom marker. You can see them on > our African American Walkingtour prototype here: > > http://centuries.digitalgizmo.com/team/walkingtour/afram_walkingtour/maptour_kml.html > > What I need is the same functionality, i.e. the marker must move around > with you as you walk, in real time. > > If that is not proprietary to Google Maps, can you point me to the code? > > Thanks, > Tony > > On Oct 4, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Chris Broadfoot wrote: > > Hi, > > The blue dot (or something similar) can be achieved with a Marker with > custom MarkerIcon. > > As far as I know we don't provide any access to the blue dot. I'd suggest > creating your own - that way you don't have to worry about any copyright > issues. > > Chris > > -- > http://twitter.com/broady > > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Birdwaves <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On my iPad, the first example at: >> >> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/map-geolocation.html >> does not give me the blue dot. Just a word balloon that says says >> "Location found using HTML5." It did discover my location. If I knew >> what the blue dot was called, I could research it... >> >> >> >> On Oct 1, 6:02 am, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > MY question is this: Can I get the GPS functionality (blue dot) using >> > > the v3 API? >> > >> > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html. >> .. >> > gives the basics >> > >> > > Secondly is there a site that that gives simple >> > > instructions? >> > >> > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/ >> > >> > Some of Mike W's v2 code examples have been ported to v3 by Larry >> athttp://www.geocodezip.com/ >> > >> > > All the web research seems to indicate that you can't do >> > > all the things in v3 that you could do in v2. >> > >> > Which things are you expecting to be a problem? I don't see anything >> > that's likely to be an issue in your demo. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Thanks! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
