Geolocation: Magic JavaScript

Usage

Geolocation support is turned off by default! The visitor's browser otherwise will notify them that your website would like to gather location information.

Change geo : { use : false to geo : { use : true in the $m.construct() method call at the top of your page to turn it on.

When support is turned on, Magic immediately asks the visitor's browser for geolocation data. See below for more details.

By itself, the Magic's geolocation code doesn't provide more than simple functionality to ask the browser for location details. What you do with the data is up to you. Below is an example.

Example

Show my geolocation data

API

If geolocation data is available, it will be saved to the $m.geo.pos object.

$m.geo.pos.timestamp — DOM timestamp
$m.geo.pos.coords.latitude — decimal degrees
$m.geo.pos.coords.longitude — decimal degrees
$m.geo.pos.coords.accuracy — meters
$m.geo.pos.coords.altitude — meters above the reference ellipsoid
$m.geo.pos.coords.altitudeAccuracy — meters
$m.geo.pos.coords.heading — degrees clockwise from true north
$m.geo.pos.coords.speed — meters per second

Any properties not available will be set to false.

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