On 10-08-23 05:32 AM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
On Aug 23, 1:45 am, Rajinder Yadav<[email protected]> wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to get the user's geo-location when a
request comes in after they've clicked on a link. Is there a easy way to
do this in rails, also is the geo-location provided by the user's
browser, or is there another way this is determined?
You might want to take a look at the html5 geolocation api (
http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html ). The browser will ask the
user for permission, and precision will vary - last time I checked on
my machine Safari used nearby wifi signals to work out its position
(which was pretty good) whereas Firefox just did an ip address thing,
which was out by a hunded miles (and sometimes is completely wrong, eg
if I'm travelling and using a VPN)
Fred
Thanks!
Hi Fred,
thanks for that info, for my use case a general location of the user,
like country and possibly region or city will do!
Q: About obtaining permission from the user, this needs to be done easy
time? Thanks!
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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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