Reputation: 2200
Is there any reliable geolocation service which could provide me with the latitude and longitude of a mobile device. I need something like Google Gears(which is unfortunately discontinued) where I can give various data about the carriers cell the device is currently in etc. and get the latitude and longitude.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 511
Reputation: 2200
So it turns out that for a GSM Blackberry device with OS 5 there is no good alternative for getting the location to the standard satellite lock.
WIFI and Cellsite services are not available and unless you have a very good server with huge database with locations of carrier cells all over the world you cannot do anything effective.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 1362
HTML5 includes a geolocation method: see http://html5demos.com/geo
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 11682
If the device you have does not support the Location API in HTML5, then you can use the IP address to get the location of the device. Have a look at services like www.maxmind.com. They have a basic free service that does location lookup basedon IP. The free service is accurate to city level. Beware that:
Upvotes: 2