Comments on: You Are Here (with Safari on iPhone)

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:27:50 +0000

@John, I added @Ziyad’s fixes in my latest update. See if that works for ya and thanks Ziyad!

By: Ziyad

Ziyad — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:12:14 +0000

Great article, thanks for sharing. Since Google keep changing things, the pulse wont work. However, I went through the comments and here is a fix proposed by Velko (based on a tip by Chris), change:

#map_canvas div[style*="blue_dot_circle.png"]

TO:

#map_canvas img[src*="blue_dot_circle.png"]

and the pulse should work.

As for John’s comment regarding the accuracy of the geolocation, I have used Neil Craig’s technique and it worked with me perfectly, that’s his post:

http://www.thedotproduct.org/2010/04/example-of-navigator-geolocation-watchposition/

Doing those two things you will end up with an accurate location with an attractive animated marker. Just wanted to mention that simple thing, all the best.

By: Braden

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By: John

John — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:12:14 +0000

Just as an example of how the google kit works…

I am playing with your examples. ( which are cool, btw) Thank you for publishing them. I live in Michigan, but my iPhone 4 and old 3GS(without cell service) are sometimes reporting that they are Maine. It just so happens that I went on vacation to Maine last week and I took my Airport with me. I wonder if the Airport, attached to the cable company up there, somehow registered itself with the big google database? It only happened a few times, and only after the timeout period, maybe?

I can get it to do this:

Refresh your etc/map page and it will locate me a couple thousand feet from my house.
Switch over to Maps app, which has large location circle. The circle will get small as it homes in on my house.
Switch back to Safari and the map zooms to my house for about a second, then switches to the place in Maine!

Let the iPhone go to sleep and wake it back up and its back to a couple thousand feet from my house.

The Maps app itself would occasionally center itself on the cottage in Maine.

(My Michigan locale has DSL from local company, BTW)

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By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:47:25 +0000

@Nola-designer by all means, take the code and use as you wish. Thanks for asking.

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:40:41 +0000

@Ricky possibly… though that’s a bit beyond the scope of this post. You might start at the Google Maps API and then look at Yelp, Gowalla, etc.