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HTML5 / Google maps api, Get the long name of the current user's coujntry
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| <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> | |
| <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Geolocation Demo</title> | |
| <script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> | |
| <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script> | |
| <script src="Geolocation.js" type="text/javascript"></script> | |
| <style type="text/css"> | |
| body | |
| { | |
| font-family: arial; | |
| } | |
| li.button | |
| { | |
| display: inline; | |
| background-color: Black; | |
| color: White; | |
| margin: 5px; | |
| padding: 5px; | |
| border-radius: 5px; | |
| } | |
| li.button a | |
| { | |
| color: White; | |
| text-decoration: none; | |
| } | |
| li.selected | |
| { | |
| background-color: Red; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1>Geolocation Demo</h1> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li class="button"><a id="locateMe" href="#">Locate Me!</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p id="location"></p> | |
| <script type="text/javascript"> | |
| var geoDemo = { | |
| init: function() { | |
| $("#locateMe").click(geoDemo.onLocateMeClick); | |
| }, | |
| onLocateMeClick: function() { | |
| geo.getUserCountry(geoDemo.onGetUserCountry); | |
| }, | |
| onGetUserCountry: function(country) { | |
| $("#location").html(country); | |
| } | |
| }; | |
| $(geoDemo.init); | |
| </script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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| // requires <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script> | |
| var geo = { | |
| // returns the user's country, or '' if not available | |
| // callback: function(country) {} | |
| getUserCountry: function(callback) { | |
| if (navigator.geolocation) { | |
| navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(geo.createCurrentPositionCallback(callback)); | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| createCurrentPositionCallback: function(callback) { | |
| return function(position) { | |
| geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); | |
| var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude); | |
| geocoder.geocode({ 'latLng': latlng }, function(results, status) { | |
| if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) { | |
| // dig into the results to find the country | |
| for (resultIndex in results) { | |
| var result = results[resultIndex]; | |
| for (address_componentIndex in result.address_components) { | |
| var address_component = result.address_components[address_componentIndex]; | |
| for (typeIndex in address_component.types) { | |
| var type = address_component.types[typeIndex]; | |
| if (type == "country") { | |
| callback(address_component.long_name); | |
| return; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| callback(''); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| }; |
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