I’ve had some feedback wanting a working example of the Google loader location technique that I talked about in a previous blog post. So here it is:
This example no longer works as described in 2009. If you are trying to use this in present day, I recommend finding another solution.
This example no longer works as described in 2009. If you are trying to use this in present day, I recommend finding another solution.
Just wanted to post this more for myself than anything else. The problem is this:
You want to know where your users are coming from. More specifically, you want their latitude and longitude, city, state, and country. Now I know there are a lot of ways to get this info using free or paid web services, databases, and even loading map api’s. But here’s a really dirt simple way to get at that info without much effort.