How to show the location of the user, as in facebook?

Question

I have searched in many places but I couldn't find the answer for this.

The thing is I want to display the users current location in the Web page just as a text without using Maps and pointing to that.

Many places I saw used Maps for implementation, is there any way ?

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

You can use HTML5 Geolocation feature: http://html5demos.com/geo

Answer 2

try the google maps api (v3) geocoding stuff: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding#GeocodingAddressTypes

there would be a possibility to simple write down the current location (as street or city)