I am using
Bing Map
in my website. If I open in
Microsoft Edge, positioning of Geo Location
is accurate and the
same coordinates shall be pointed wrong
if open the site
in Chromium or Chrome.
Why?
Any clue?
Bing Maps simply uses the Geolocation API that is in the browser. Each browser is responsible for this. As such, some browsers are less accurate than others.
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I have recently posted a question regarding getting the user location which I thought I had solved using geolocation.GeoLocationProvider. However, I am having strange behaviour on different devices. On an iphone 5s, I get the most accurate and smallest circle marking my position. On a galaxy S3 I get very large circles and takes long to connect. I then connected a Nexus to my mobile over bluetooth and shared 3G internet. Funnily enough, my position was not showing at all. In all 3 cases, I tried going into bing maps and google maps and they all have shown my position very accurately. Is there anything I am skipping for this discrepancy between my code and bing/google maps' code?
Thanks you all,
Justin
The Bing Maps site uses the same functionality. All this does is wrap the different web based geolocation API's for different browsers into one easy to use class. This method pulls the location from the browser built-in geolocation functionality (older browsers had several different ways of doing this). This will make use of a GPS device if it has access (small circle), fall back to WIFI or IP address (large circles). A couple of things worth checking, if this is being used in an app, have you enabled access to the geolocation sensors? If this is being used in as a web app through the browser, did you get a prompt to allow access to your location and did you press Allow? If the device isn't able to access the GPS and it's using share WIFI from another phone I could see how this might confuse things.
Another option is to use the HTML5 geolocation API: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html5_geolocation.asp
I would like to know if it is possible to pass an address from an SQlite data base to GPS or Google maps and have it show on a map at the press of a button. If anyone is aware of a tuturial that could help me that would be appriciated.
I would also like to get current location and show local places on map, also populated from the same database. Thanks in advance.
In order to translate address to lat/long coordinate you will have to use the Google directions API since apple is not supporting forward geocoding.
You can take a look at this API - pretty straight forward:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/directions/
for iOS 4.x and below you will need to use the Google API but in iOS 5 Apple has implemented a really nice foreword geocoding API.
Context: The 'Maps' application on iOS has a URL Scheme to that allows applications to plot out driving directions for a given set of points.
Question: Does the Bing Maps iOS Control or Bing Maps iOS App have some sort of private or undocumented APIs that would allow me to provide the user with a driving directions given a set of pre-defined points or addresses? Either via the SDK or via URL scheme.
I checked the Bing Maps iOS Control headers and documentation and could not find anything publicly defined.
Also, I'm well aware that the app / sdk could break this interface at any given time ;-)
I know this is a few months old, but I'll provide an answer:
After numerous hours spent inducing headaches, I can confidently, and sadly, say no. All you see in the public documentation is what's there.
Is it possible to find the current location of an iphone as an address rather than as GPS coordinates using the API?
What you're looking for is MKReverseGeocoder.
What you could do is take the GPS coordinates and put them into Google maps to get the address. It seems that Google has an API that you can interact with, but I don't have any experience with it.
Good luck!
I am going to develop an app based on google map. In that locations will be displayed with markers or points near current location (point of interest). I have lattitude, longitude of different places and I am also able to find the distance from current location. I just want some help working on google map. Displaying places by latitude, longitude using markers.
I have the MAP View app of google map api. Please suggest me some tutorials or URL/source code which uses marked places and all that.
you should check these tutorials 1, 2, 3
If you're talking about the Google Maps Ajax APIs (for display in a web app), then the Google documentation has copious code examples and explanatory documentation.
If you mean the Google-based maps that are available to native iPhone applications, then please refer to the documentation for MapKit.
This may be helpful iphone-google-maps-component