The API thankfully allows for users to cloak their location, and many implementations ask the user for permission before revealing the geolocation object to the JavaScript code.

Most of the HTML and JavaScript in the example above is to make it easier to see the results. The most important line from a Geolocation API perspective is these lines: ...

Secondly, there's the Google Maps Geolocation API, which "enables an application or device to determine its own location without the use of GPS by looking up the locations of nearby WiFi access ...

Apps Twitter’s Geolocation API is Live. You can find tweets and twitters by location. November 20, 2009 - 12:01 am Twitter has just announced the public availability of their Geotagging API.

Google released a geolocation API for laptops to Gears, its toolkit for creating cross-browser functionality. This follows its first foray into geolocation, available only for Windows Mobile ...