I while back I wrote a blog post on Mobiforge on different ways of getting location information from the user/device (which by the way made it all the way to the mobiforge newsletter :)). Not surprisingly, our friend device fragmentation has joined the party. For many reasons, this kind of stuff is not so easy […]
One of the main reasons for creating applications in stead of web based services running in the browser is that you cant get hold of location data from the gps in the handset. There are actually a few options of doing that. And a W3C standard is on its way! I have made a small compilation […]
Have been playing with MaxMinds free geoip lookup tool. Its pretty OK. The quality, as far as I have tested, is pretty good! More than good enough to use in location aware mobile services. Ofcourse you have the issue with looking up location of the operators gateway when the user is connected throgh the telco network… […]