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gop
gop

Reputation: 2200

Geolocation service for mobile device

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

Answers (3)

gop
gop

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

L7ColWinters
L7ColWinters

Reputation: 1362

HTML5 includes a geolocation method: see http://html5demos.com/geo

Upvotes: 1

Kevin
Kevin

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:

  • You'll need to implement this server side
  • It's accuracy is limited, and can be confused by people connecting over corporate networks, or proxies like Opera Mobile Browser.

Upvotes: 2

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