Comments on: Geolocation – Setting your position manually

By: MetaEd

MetaEd — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:28:33 +0000

I have wired up Google Latitude to Firefox geolocation. This lets you manually update your location in Google Latitude with a single mouse click, instead of looking up your latitude and longitude yourself and typing it into a local file or URI. My article on the subject is Make Firefox Take Geolocation From Google Latitude. The solution required a small amount of server-side coding (I provide source code in the article), but I am for the time being running this code as a free live service that you can use. Cheers, MetaEd

By: Current Weather

Current Weather — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:36:31 +0000

Nice article. This functionality is pretty amazing for creating geolocation based web and mobile applications; but it definitely scares some people as well. Recently showed http://www.currentweather.ca to a colleague and he was shocked how accurate it was; literally outside the window… I on the other hand loved it

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:22:08 +0000

Why should the Firefox doc prominently explain to you how the Internet works? This is a basic tenet of online access in general. Whenever you connect to any other computer, be it your email server, your instant messenger, a direct file-sharing connection, or downloading a file or page, you are sharing your IP. It’s how the other computer knows where to send a response back.

That being said, you can hold the IANA responsible for assigning IP addresses by location, not Firefox. It’s about as much their responsibility to warn you of this as it is any other program or web page.

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By: skierpage

skierpage — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:21:19 +0000

Judging from its screencast, “ReLuc”‘s Geolocater add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14046/ lets you maintain and then pick from a bunch of locations. Looks very nice, not compatible with Firefox 4.0b2pre/3.7a1pre.

@RayR, you can stop a site using the geolocate JavaScript API from finding your position by a) choosing “Never share” in response to Firefox’s geolocate prompt or b) using this technique or that add-on to lie about where you are. But a site can still figure out your location from your IP address without asking for permission; to stop that, you must use a proxy.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:30:59 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I was happy to find that this also works in Opera 10.60. Just go to ‘opera:config’ in your browser, look up the ‘Location Provider URL’ setting, enter ‘http://snaptome.appspot.com/loc/json?latitude=your_lat&longitude=your_lon&accuracy=10′ and click the ‘save’ button.