dev.enekoalonso.com » geolocation http://dev.enekoalonso.com having fun with code Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 iPhone 3.0 geolocation with Javascript http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2009/06/30/iphone-3-0-geolocation-with-javascript/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2009/06/30/iphone-3-0-geolocation-with-javascript/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:13:43 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=338 I was watching one of the video tutorials from Apple last night about some custom JS available on Safari, only on the iPhone 3.0, that let’s you interact with the phone and obtain data like the current location, etc.

So I built a little page to see how it works. I included Mootools 1.2.3 from Google servers and the Google Maps API. And voilá, with a few lines of code we have a totally functional web based GSP navigation system. A little bit ugly, but functional. Currenlty it only centers the map on the coordinates given by the phone, and also does a reverse geolocation to obtain the address (actually city, state and country). But it could be easily extended to add markers to the map, or even paths to track the movement.

If you have an iPhone (or an iPhone simulator) go to:
http://enekoalonso.com/research/iphone/geolocation.html

The source code:

  1. var Navigator = new Class({
  2.   initialize: function() {
  3.  
  4.     // Listen for position changes
  5.     this.watchId = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(
  6.       function(position){ this.position(position) }.bind(this),
  7.       function() {},
  8.       { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 1000, maximumAge: 10000 }
  9.     );
  10.     this.infoPanel = $('info');
  11.  
  12.     // Create the Geocoder and the Map
  13.     this.geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
  14.     this.map = new google.maps.Map($('map'), {
  15.       zoom: 12,
  16.       mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
  17.     });
  18.   },
  19.  
  20.   position: function(position) {
  21.     // Update labels
  22.     this.infoPanel.getElement('p.date').set('text', position.timestamp);
  23.     this.infoPanel.getElement('p.coords').set('text', position.coords.latitude + ', ' + position.coords.longitude);
  24.     this.infoPanel.getElement('p.altitude').set('text', position.coords.altitude);
  25.     this.infoPanel.getElement('p.heading').set('text', position.coords.heading);
  26.     this.infoPanel.getElement('p.speed').set('text', position.coords.speed);
  27.  
  28.     // Center map
  29.     var latLng = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
  30.     this.map.set_center(latLng);
  31.  
  32.     // Reverse geolocation (get current address)
  33.     this.geocoder.geocode({'latLng': latLng},
  34.       function(results, status) {
  35.         if (google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) this.showAddress(results)
  36.       }.bind(this)
  37.     );
  38.   },
  39.  
  40.   showAddress: function(results) {
  41.     // console.dir(response);
  42.     if (results[1]) {
  43.       this.infoPanel.getElement('p.location').set('text', results[1].formatted_address);
  44.     }
  45.   }
  46. });
  47.  
  48. window.addEvent('load', function() {
  49.   new Navigator();
  50. });

Enjoy.

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