Tag Archives: geolocation

CoreLocation in 10.6

By dougt | Published: September 21, 2009
I took a really quick look at the built-in location services on Mac 10.6.  I wanted to determine what sort of accuracy the feature had out-of-the-box, and what the API looked like. The code is pretty simple.  Just something like: CLLocationManager* locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init]; locationManager.delegate                = self; locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest; [locationManager startUpdatingLocation]; The [...]
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Using CoreWLAN on MacOS 10.5

By dougt | Published: September 16, 2009
When Apple’s OS X version 10.6 shipped, they broke compatibility will all 3rd party geolocation applications.  This wasn’t entirely unexpected as we all were using a private framework which wasn’t documented.  So, Firefox 3.5 and Gears, and probably Skyhook, are busted right now on OS X 10.6. Apple has provided, with limited documentation, a new [...]
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Geolocation Address

By dougt | Published: July 20, 2009
Last week, I pushed a change that will enable tomorrow’s trunk Firefox builds (Minefield) to access user-readable position information. For example, instead only being able to work with: 37.3882005, -122.0834553 You can see the physical address as: 650 Castro St, Mountain View, California, 94041, US This should help aide the many people that already know [...]
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Geolocation in Firefox 3.5 and Fennec

By dougt | Published: April 30, 2009
I’m excited to introduce a new feature in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 that I’ve been working on called geolocation. Geolocation is an opt-in tool that lets users share their location information with web sites through Firefox and will enable a new range of services on the web. Geolocation can make web sites smarter and you [...]
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