Geolocation to Picking Location

[Jerry Levine]

Hiya...

This may be out of the scope of the forum, but...I hope someone can help!

Basically, what I want to do (and not display a map, although I suppose it can be hidden) is the following:

1) Geolocate user
2) Based on user's location, display a specific item - essentially, "I think you are here - is that correct?"
3) Upon press of Yes, go to a specific webpage
4) If No, present selections of other locations and then go to their webpage.

I can figure out (4) - it's just a list. But I kind of need help with 1-3...

[Maryna Brodina]

1) You can try to use this code:

initiate_geolocation();
function initiate_geolocation() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(handle_geolocation_query,handle_errors);
}
function handle_errors(error)
{
switch(error.code)
{
case error.PERMISSION_DENIED: alert("GPS function not available right now");
break;
case error.POSITION_UNAVAILABLE: alert("Location services not turned on! Please enable location services prior to continuing.");
break;
case error.TIMEOUT: alert("retrieving position timed out");
break;
default: alert("unknown error");
break;
}
}
function handle_geolocation_query(position){
alert('Lat: ' + position.coords.latitude +
' Lon: ' + position.coords.longitude);
}

2) Use $(document).simpledialog( to call the dialog - this shoul help http://dev.jtsage.com/jQM-SimpleDialo...

3) You can add events on click "Yes" button (here is more information http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50...)

[Jerry Levine]

Marina -

Thanks. With regard to (1), I'm presuming that goes in the Custom Javascript field, and I could call that at Load?

Thanks,

Jerry

[Jerry Levine]

Solved, the answer is yes, of course.

[Jerry Levine]

Marina - I think that this might be a function of my limited programming knowledge. I might just need to find someone to do this for me.

Tiggzi seems to be simple, but I just don't know how to effectively use code to do things that are out of the realm of the main interface.

[Jerry Levine]

This is just a function of me quitting CS to go to business school. Now recognized as a bad decision.

I can visualize what's supposed to happen - , I can tell that it's determine location lat/long, request ZIP based on lat/long, look at array for matching ZIP code, display specific location based on array, else, offer list based on state/locations...

I just don't know what the heck I'm doing. Hah.

[Maryna Brodina]

To work with Tiggzi you should have some knowledges of HTML, JS, CSS, but don't be frustrated! Did you try sample above? What exactly doesn't work?

[Puneet Duseja]

Hi,
I would like to know if i can display the user location on my app screen, using the above mentioned java script.

copyin here as well...
initiate_geolocation();
function initiate_geolocation() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(handle_geolocation_query,handle_errors);
}
function handle_errors(error)
{
switch(error.code)
{
case error.PERMISSION_DENIED: alert("GPS function not available right now");
break;
case error.POSITION_UNAVAILABLE: alert("Location services not turned on! Please enable location services prior to continuing.");
break;
case error.TIMEOUT: alert("retrieving position timed out");
break;
default: alert("unknown error");
break;
}
}
function handle_geolocation_query(position){
alert('Lat: ' + position.coords.latitude +
' Lon: ' + position.coords.longitude);
}

Thanks

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello!

Have you tried this code? Are there any problems?

[Puneet Duseja]

Hi, I tried this code and it works fine, as it displays the latitude and longitude. I want to know the name of the location or city and display it in a field on the application. Could you please let me know how that can be achieved. Thanks!