Posted by frederix 4 years 5 weeks ago
Hi people, new to the forum and to the mobile development, i don't know exactly where to post my question so ill just post it here :)
First, i think this is a great website for people starting on the mobile development, after been here for a few weeks reading i decided to start my own mobile project, its a directory of business for the united states and later i will like to make it worldwide.
Mainly i am making the project just for learning and as a programmer if a client some day ask me for a mobile site i will know what to do it, also i am personally interesting on the mobile marketing.
I will like to show maps on my mobile page with store locations, i did it before for normal web pages with google maps or mapquest and i know it ca be done for mobile.
In the other side i downloaded google maps for windows mobile and i installed it on my device, this program haves this feature "my location" who can get the info of your device gps or even from cell towers and locate you on earth.
So, i don't really believe it will be possible to make something similar via web, i mean the user get inside my webpage displaying a map and the map updates to his position, don't sound possible to me but i am very new.
One way i think it can be possible is make surfers download a program who can turn on the gps on the device and send longitude and latitude to my web server, i know some c++ but i am not sure it if will be the simplest and inteligent way.
I will like to hear some people with any idea.
Thank you,
pd: please exuse my bad english
Posted by ruadhan 4 years ago
Mobile Champion
More and more location based applications are popping up- some use GPS, and others use 'faux-GPS', the technology used by Google Maps, which makes use of cell tower ids (and also WIFI hotspots) to figure out where the user is. There is even a rumour that v2.0 of the iphone software will add continuous location tracking functionality to its current 'Locate me' functionality.
One thing these applications have in common is that they have access to some of the device APIs which make it possible to derive location information. Right now, a web application doesn't have the same access to this useful information, and so can't do the same kinds of things that native applications can do. Right now... but who knows? In the future, the browser may well include location information along with requests to webservers, and this could really open up a new era of location aware web applications.
Right now, though you are exactly right - you would need to have a user download some program which will use the GPS on the device, and send lat and long to your server. For instance, one such free Java application is called TrekBuddy (well, it uses the GPS, but doesn't send any data to a server as far as I know), but I think this is the kind of thing you are looking for. Then it would be possible to request specific map tiles from Google maps for example and serve these to your users...
Ruadhan O'DonoghuedotMobi
Posted by frederix 4 years ago
nice answer ruadhan, i am glad to be here.
i like the idea of the browser sending location data to the webserver posible via a plugin in minimo however i dont think it can be possible with IE.
another option can be server sending for example store coords to phone with installed google maps or other map application.
anyways i will leave this idea for a while, i still have to learn to much to make something like that.
thank you again,
United States Mobile Guide | Punk Rock Lyrics | The Escorts Finder | PhrackPosted by cranstone 2 years ago
Frederix,
It is possible for a mobile app to read data from the device side API's and then send that data directly to any web server using the browser.
Cheers
Peter J. CranstoneCEO 5o9 Inc