GPS Tracking

[Ninjakreborn]

Alright, I have been trying to figure this out for myself awhile.  I have a question.  What are the technology extents of GPS tracking on the web?

Using either PHP, Javascript or something else is there a way that I can get someone's GPS location from their phone in a web browser?

 

I have a very large project that requires some decent GPS features....however, I have underestimated it..and I am at the point where I am about to have to

tell the client we have to do this with Mobile apps. I wanted to try to make this happen using the web browser. It's going to be using Google Maps. I was hoping I can pinpoint

their location pretty closely.  Is this possible in a web environment.

[Adam]

I have never attempted to do anything like this, so apologies if I'm not completely accurate. From my understanding of GPS the mobile phone would receive it's position from the satellites, then would need to ping that location to your web service (would probably require an app on the phone).

 

Your server would then use the GPS co-ordinates to plot the location using the Google maps API, and render within a browser. I would imagine there's some form of support for GPS co-ordaintes within the API, and Android/iOS probably have some built-in utilities to make the mobile process easier as well.

 

I don't think it will be a case of mobile or server application; you're going to need to combine the two.

[xylex]

Most phones support the HTML5 Geolocation API.