I get nothing... Firefox (windows and *NIX) :-(
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Lately we are doing quite a bit of mapping. It's a hip field of work at the > moment, and we having a lot of fun doing it. We shared some of the fun on > the > last LUG meeting when we showed how we can build pothole.ug in 20 minutes. > > When building geo-aware applications there is 2 ways to find out where > someone > is. First is to use a GPS, for which phones or other devices need to have > extra hardware onboard, or to use people's IP address. > > Just curious, but are there any people in Uganda that can do the following > test (using firefox) and see if their location is in any way accurate: > http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/geolocation.php > > I end up on Mackay Rd, which is in Kampala (that is good) but its closer to > my > ISP, than it is to where I really am. > > Being able to use this kind of technology is not just hip, or great fun, > but > also allows for example to run reports of your website, based on location > (how > many people from the west/east/central visit my website. Or offer > services/redirects based on where people are (like advertisements). > > > (ah, hip is hip as in for example http://foursquare.com/ which is a game > where > you can 'claim' a certain real-life location as your own, if you visit it > often enough and 'checkin' from it. It works worldwide, there are some > people > playing it in Kampala too) > > (And if you want to know how the page in firefox works, its explained here: > http://davidwalsh.name/geolocation-api ) > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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