is it the ISP, or should you upgrade your firefox to a higher version?
(@kiggs, which ISP is that? It seems people are quite lucky on UTL so far) -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Wednesday 30 June 2010 12:19:43 Mike Barnard wrote: > 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. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
