What do you think about the Gears Geolocation API

September 4, 2008
Filed under Gears 0.4

What you see on the top of the sidebar is not server side code. More than that, not even a bit of PHP has been used. In fact, even HTML is almost not present. It’s Gears and its GeoLocation API.

When you allow Devoracles to collect some data about you, more exactly your location on the Earth, Gears queries Google about your location. Again, not even a bit of server side code on Devoracles’s side.

This is the GeoLocation API of Gears. And What can be used for? Think about AdSense, for the matter of the example. It always knows where you are. OK, almost always.

Any thoughts on this API?

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