navigator.geolocation.GetCurrentPosition throws "The last location provider was disabled" error

Question

I am trying to create a very basic HTML5 page that grabs the geolocation, but I'm getting an error.

Here's what I have inside my 'script' tags:

 function GetGeo() {
        if (!navigator.geolocation) {
            alert("Could not find geolocation");
        }
        else {
            navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showMap, function (error) { alert("error encountered: " + error.message ); });
        }
    }

    function showMap(position) {
        window.alert(position.coords.latitude + ", " + position.coords.longitude);
    }

The page just has a button on it, that calls the GetGeo() function.

What I did is dropped the .html file onto the SDCard of my phone. Then, I browsed to "content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/GetGeo.html" and the page shows up correctly. When I click the button and execute, I get the following error: "The last location provider was disabled"

I have a couple questions: 1: Is it wrong to just drop the html file on the SDCard and try to run it there? 2: Is there something basic that I'm doing wrong that is not letting it get the geolocation from the mobile browser?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

I figured this out: I needed to go into the setting of my mobile browser and check 'Enable Location'