Ryan Sarver wrote: > > Steve, good points… > > > > It’s also important to remember that this functionality would be an > opt-in system – unlike your cell phone :) The prototype that we are > working on would allow the browser to point to a COM port where it > could find a GPS device or any NMEA-compatible device or software. It > would then read the NMEA stream over the COM port and use that to > deliver the user’s location to the website via the DOM. > > > > Our software positions you based on WiFi triangulation and can emulate > a GPS device by streaming NMEA over a virtual COM port so that the > user wouldn’t need to have a dedicated GPS antennae. > I'd think a more practical approach would be to allow for a user-entered location, and let GPS override should the user have a GPS capable device. There are many good reasons to to have geolocation (statistical, custom content, etc.), but few GPS capable devices. I think more content providers would consider this to be a usable source of data if the UA had fallbacks (GPS, OS, preference in UA).
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