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Bug 15957 - Support W3C geolocation API for in-browser geographic search
Support W3C geolocation API for in-browser geographic search
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
GIS (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source...
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Blocks: 19920
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Reported: 2008-10-12 18:39 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2011-04-14 15:10 UTC (History)
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Description Brion Vibber 2008-10-12 18:39:19 UTC 
Once we have a working geographic coordinate database and search, the ability to search around a current location provided by the browser would be rather useful.

The W3C geolocation API could be used to obtain coordinates from supporting browsers; Mozilla's experimenting with this in the Geode extension and Fennec mobile browser. It would be nice to support these when available in the on-site search UI.
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2009-03-28 03:54:21 UTC 
Note that Google Gears provides a similar API:
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2009-05-01 21:59:02 UTC 
Just noting that Firefox 3.5 beta 4 includes the geolocation API now without a plugin. Would be nice to have something preliminary in time for Firefox 3.5 release this summer.
Comment 3 Chad H. 2009-07-28 23:42:48 UTC 
Marking this as a blocker to 19920. We need to support this data natively before we add it to other platforms :)
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