How do I detect user's location from a webpage opened in the Android browser?

Question

Visiting www.google.com on the Android browser (or even with an android spoofed user-agent), presents the option to "Share Location". When clicked, it uses the GPS/Cell phone towers to figure out the location. I tried the google.loader.clientLocation but that only works using the IP address.

Is there a method to tap into the Android OS and access GPS data from a regular web application (and not an Android application) similar to the way Google does?

[Perhaps Google uses the Google Gears app on Android to access this data.]

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is an HTML5 API, and it'll work on Webkit-derivatives, Chrome, and Firefox 3.5 (for now).

• http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html
• http://merged.ca/iphone/html5-geolocation